The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...
Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...
A powerful solar storm in May 2024 led to the formation of two radiation belts, altering Earth's space environment.
The sun is reaching a solar maximum. Here's what that could mean for Iowa and our chances to see the aurora borealis, known ...
A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...
It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...
The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...
The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years, which marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in polarity marks the point at which the sun is halfway through solar maximum ...
The sun is at the peak of its 11-year cycle. That means an uptick in solar flares will lead to more chances to see the northern lights over the next couple of years.
AMS observations highlight charged particle variations linked to solar cycles, impacting cosmic ray flux in the heliosphere.
"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...