Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cosmic radiation could be a boon for subsurface life on worlds such as Europa (left), Mars (center) and Enceladus (right), ...

Accelerated to high energies, the particles making up cosmic rays aren’t exactly friendly to life. At least, not to life as we know it. According to a new theory, they could spark a chain of reactions ...

Scientists analysing the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS believe that billions of years of high‑energy cosmic ray bombardment have effectively erased its true self, leaving only a heavily altered shell ...