High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

Three years of radiation data collected on the far side of the moon show that Earth’s magnetic field still reaches the lunar ...

For years, physicists treated an Earth-to-space quantum uplink as a beautiful idea that nature simply would not allow. Now a set of detailed models and experiments suggests that the same fragile ...

Rock-a-bye, baby. With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ ...

New faculty member Anton Artemyev is bringing his award-winning research in space physics to The University of Texas at ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in ...