There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above ...

There is another possible source though: the Van Allen radiation belt, a ring of charged particles ... producing enough sheer forces to rip each galaxy apart from the inside out.

Earth is encircled by two donut-shaped bands of particles called the Van Allen belts, where energetic protons and electrons from the sun are trapped by the planet’s magnetic field. These ...

including record-breaking signal tracking from the Global Navigation Satellite System and radiation measurements through the Van Allen Belts. With the hardest part behind them, Firefly is now ...

These belts, located between the two permanent Van Allen belts, surprised scientists with their composition and lifespan. The discovery was made possible thanks to the CIRBE satellite, a NASA ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two extra radiation belts, sandwiched between the two permanent Van Allen Belts. One of the new belts, shown in purple, included a population of protons, giving it a ...

They sit in a toroidal or donut shape around the planet but the mysteries about what gives Van Allen’s belts their shape is one of the big questions still being researched today. Another big ...

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Joe Van Allen has joined the Boston College football support staff as the Eagles' new director of rehabilitation. Van Allen, who has over 25 years of sports medicine and ...