During that time it passed through the Van Allen belt and gave RadPC the chance to earn its name. Radiation and computers don’t mix because a single high-energy particle can, according to NASA ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment -- these are just a few of the challenges space ...

Electrons in a Van Allen radiation belt (blue) encounter whistler waves (purple) and are sent raining toward the north pole (red). THEMIS satellites are seen near the radiation belt, while UCLA ...

Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission ...

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June 2024, returned to Earth after ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

The twin Van Allen Probes have spent more than six years orbiting through Earth's radiation belts. Orbit changes in early 2019 will ensure that the spacecraft eventually de-orbit and disintegrate ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two additional radiation belts, sandwiched between the two permanent Van Allen belts. One of them, shown in purple, contained a population of protons, giving it a ...

NASA's 45-day post-mission rehabilitation program is designed to help astronauts recover from the physical effects of ...

Van Allen Space Environments Medal. He currently is lead investigator on several NASA space missions including NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes ...