Earth’s magnetosphere, the region of space dominated by Earth’s magnetic field, protects our planet from the harsh battering of the solar wind. Like a protective shield, the magnetosphere absorbs and ...

What looks like a red rash on this image are "hot spots" caused by heat from fires sensed by the orbiting Suomi NPP satellite. But wait. What's that odd dot off the coast of Brazil in the middle of ...

The mysterious third Van Allen belt, which has puzzled astronomers for years, is created by so-called 'space tsunamis', according to research. For more than 50 years, experts believed there were two ...

A popular claim links India's Kasar Devi Temple, Peru's Machu Picchu, and England's Stonehenge via the "Van Allen Belt ...

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 ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above your head at any given time. These high-energy particles, which can travel at ...

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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...