This breakthrough is particularly significant for spacecraft heading into geostationary orbit, as they must pass through the Van Allen Belts multiple times before reaching their final destination.

In May 2024, a powerful solar storm sent a surge of charged particles toward Earth, leading to an extraordinary discovery: a never-before-seen radiation belt now circles our planet. This unexpected ...

These belts, located between the two permanent Van Allen belts, surprised scientists with their composition and lifespan. The May 2024 solar storm created two additional radiation belts, sandwiched ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without it, our planet would be barren and lifeless. It is believed that Mars once had a Van Allen belt that protected it too from the Sun’s deadly wind. However, once the core cooled ...