Murray said after a phone conversation with Energy Secretary Chris Wright that he admitted to actively stalling startup of ...

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

The difference lies in the structure of the atom's nucleus, with certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles making some isotopes especially resistant to radioactive decay. So what are these magic ...

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that ...

High-energy space radiation will threaten the Mars settlements that Elon Musk hopes to build with SpaceX, as well as NASA outposts for astronauts.

In the middle of the 20th century, the atom was all the rage. Radiation was the shiny new solution to everything while being ...

Is nuclear energy an environmentally friendly solution to a nationwide energy crisis? Or does it present too much risk with too little payoff?

Of the four known fundamental forces of nature, the weak nuclear force is the one with the least obvious purpose. Gravity ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...