It also created two new bands of radiation around the planet, researchers report in the February JGR Space Physics. Earth is encircled by two donut-shaped bands of particles called the Van Allen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is another possible source though: the Van Allen radiation belt, a ring of charged particles around the Earth that are kept in place by Earth’s magnetic field. The European Payload for ...