The Van Allen belts, located around the Earth, represent a crucial area of study for understanding the effects of radiation on space technology. These natural belts, illustrated in yellow around the ...

Earth is wearing a thin antimatter belt, according to new data that revealed antiprotons trapped high above the planet. Antimatter particles are mirror opposites of normal matter particles.

What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt. How long would it be before one of these belts sent their asteroids hurtling ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of millions of years ago, transforming the planet into an icicle floating in ...

One of the most important considerations will be traveling through the Van Allen radiation belt that surrounds Earth. Discovered by astrophysicist James Van Allen in the late 1950’s ...

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Despite this, all the impact craters are close to the equator. "Normally asteroids coming from the asteroid belt impact the Earth randomly, so craters would be found anywhere on the Earth ...

However, we have shown in this study that the low-velocity region is only near the Equator. Earth’s outer core has a radius of around 3,480km, which makes it slightly bigger than the planet Mars.

The belts are two layers of charged particles surrounding the planet and held in place by Earth's magnetic field. "We as a society are dependent on space technology," Sonwalkar said. "Modern ...

“As the ice sheets melt, the earth’s oblateness increases and the region around the equator elongates slightly. The moment of inertia increases and the rotation rate gets smaller.” Water ...