Hydrogels could be ideal radiation protection for astronauts
It's a key problem that will need to be addressed if humans are to attempt deep-space, long-duration missions. Not only is radiation exposure a dangerous health risk to humans, but it also poses a ...
May 2024 Solar Storm Triggers Unusual Radiation Belts, Raising Space Safety Concerns
A powerful solar storm in May 2024 led to the formation of two radiation belts, altering Earth's space environment.
How water could make future solar cells recyclable
Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden believe they may have found a solution that could let solar manufacturers ...
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Learn How NASA Tracks The Solar Cycles
The 11-year solar cycle is tracked by NASA, learn how they do it. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Earth grew an extra, never-before-seen 'radiation belt' after last year's supercharged solar storm — and it's probably still there
Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...
Huge solar storm in May 2024 spawned 2 new radiation belts around Earth
The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...
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Space weather scales are outdated and confusing. Here's what NOAA scientists are doing about it
"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 ...
Remember the northern lights that reached Florida? The solar storm created radiation belts around Earth
The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...