The Van Allen belts aren't a problem just for space exploration. They can damage satellites, too, and we're putting up a lot of satellites these days.

Oh, that Van Allen Belt—online crackpots love to use Earth’s belt of radiation to bolster their Moon landing conspiracies, suggesting it could be too. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Giant donut-shaped swaths of magnetically trapped, highly energetic charged particles surround Earth. James Van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa, discovered these radiation belts in ...

Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012, observations from the Van Allen Probes showed that a third belt can sometimes appear.

The Van Allen radiation belts, discovered in 1958, are two doughnut-shaped rings of energetic particles circling the Earth up to about 25,000 miles above the surface, ...

Mystery Belt. Back in 2013, NASA sent two Van Allen Probes into the Van Allen radiation belts in order to gather more information on the phenomena and on the Earth's magnetosphere.

This third Van Allen belt lasted only a few weeks before it vanished, and its cause remained inexplicable. Mann is co-investigator on the NASA Van Allen Probes mission.

NASA's new Van Allen Probes have revealed how quickly the radiation belts around Earth change, and how charged particles there vary in time, energy and spatial distribution.

Los Alamos, N.M., March 20, 2017--The inner Van Allen belt has less radiation than previously believed, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Observations from NASA's ...

The Van Allen Belts are a pair of rings, circling the earth, made up of charged particles. Named for astronomer James Van Allen, these cosmic doughnuts were discovered early in the space age ...

When NASA scientists launched twin spacecraft to probe the Van Allen radiation belts last summer, they were expecting to study two rings of high-energy particles circling Earth. Instead they found ...