This solar storm not only disrupted GPS communications but also created two new temporary radiation belts around Earth. These belts, located between the two permanent Van Allen belts, surprised ...

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

This solar storm not only disrupted GPS communications but also created two new temporary radiation belts around Earth. These ...

The satellite's detection of low cosmic ray flux prompted scientist James Van Allen to speculate that Explorer 1 had passed through an unknown radiation belt ... minutes to an altitude of 116.5 ...

The reconstructed flux is included in data assimilation with the Versatile Electron Radiation Belts (VERB) model and compared with Van Allen Probes and GOES observations. We demonstrate that data ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Joseph Van Allen, age 69, of Cedar Lake, IN, formerly of South Holland, IL, entered into rest peacefully March 27, 2025, and was born into life June 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL. Loving husband of ...