A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...

Van Allen radiation hinders and complicates spaceflight, magnetic instruments, and more.

Could a century-old military communication method be quietly protecting our planet from deadly space radiation? NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, stumbled ...

While radio waves emitted by radio and television broadcasting and CB radio can disrupt the magnetic compass of migratory birds, those used in mobile communication networks do not because the ...

We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs. Two colliding neutron ...

Experimental physicist Chelsea Bartram has been fascinated by radio since childhood. She earned a ham radio license, built a few antennas and realized she could hear people speaking in foreign ...