Our planet is nestled in the center of two immense, concentric doughnuts of powerful radiation: the Van Allen radiation belts, which harbor swarms of charged particles that are trapped by Earth’s ...

Earth is surrounded by a radio field caused by very low-frequency waves. This field pushes away the Van Allen Belts, a ...

Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a massive particle ...

The University of Colorado Boulder will play a key role in a NASA mission launching this week to study how space weather affects Earth’s two giant radiation belts known to be hazardous to satellites, ...

Remember the big solar storm in May? Scientists have just discovered that, in addition to creating spellbinding auroras, the storm also made a new temporary ring of charged, high-energy particles ...

A discovery was unveiled after the rare G4 geomagnetic solar storm in May, when the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, reached as far south as Texas. “Scientists have just ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Twin satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on a quest to explore Earth's treacherous radiation belts and protect the planet from solar outbursts. NASA launched the ...

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NASA has released the clearest images ever compiled of Earth’s magnetosphere radiation belt. But the spacecraft that accomplished the feat wasn’t only designed to detail the vital atmospheric region ...

Not all that far above your head is a particle accelerator that would put the Large Hadron Collider to shame. There, charged particles, some carried in by the solar wind, some created by cosmic rays, ...

(AP) Twin satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on a quest to explore Earth’s treacherous radiation belts and protect the planet from solar outbursts. NASA launched the science probes before dawn, ...