What are the Van Allen belts? Learn how these giant rings of charged particles cause problems for astronauts and satellites.

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 ...

The Van Allen Belts are areas of high radiation where solar particles have been trapped and accelerated by the Earth's magnetic field. This has long been touted as evidence by conspiracy theorists ...

These belts pose significant challenges for space travel. The high-energy particles trapped within them can damage spacecraft electronics and pose health risks to astronauts. Listen to Story These ...

Over the course of five days as it flies at this record altitude, the SpaceX Dragon Resilience capsule carrying the crewmembers will pass through the inner Van Allen radiation belt, one of two ...

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 ...

The ancient Kasar Devi Temple in Uttarakhand is positioned directly on the Van Allen Belt. Machu Pichu in Peru and Stonehenge in the UK are the two other landmarks located on Van Allen Belt. These ...

The Van Allen Belt has in itself a significant portion of Earth's magnetosphere, extending thousands of kilometres into space. But, when it comes to Earth, it is said that only 3 spots have the ...