The shielding is crucial, as Nasa aims to limit astronauts' increased lifetime cancer risk to within three percent. However, missions to the Moon and Mars will give astronauts far greater exposure, ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

Solar-powered fuel breakthrough at ETH Zurich Researchers claim that the fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum can function as a ...

German scientists believe that power generation for future habitats on the moon could be achieved by manufacturing halide ...

Unlike on Earth, where the atmosphere and planetary magnetic field provide a shield from space radiation, astronauts are exposed to high-energy radiation permeating the cosmos. This can lead to ...

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A team of biomedical engineers at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science working with a team of bio-scientist colleagues ...

Future space probes could provide some warning time for high-radiation events, such coronal mass ejections - plasma clouds from the Sun - but cosmic radiation remains unpredictable. "Shielding is ...