The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

Key PointsThe May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth.Such belts have ...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

The latest observations 7 indicate that we should adopt a new paradigm for producing the outer radiation belt, as suggested in Fig. 1. Wave acceleration requires a seed population of keV electrons ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

The Earth's radiation belts are regions of charged particles, primarily electrons, trapped by the planet's magnetic field. Understanding the dynamics of these radiation belts is crucial ...

NASA detects mysterious 'chirping' signals, or chorus waves, 165,000 km from Earth, revealing surprising energy transfer in ...

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale satellites have observed bird-like chorus waves in the Earth's mid-tail neutral sheet, ...

Gurnett was among a group of physicists who proposed a plasma wave experiment for Voyager, based mainly on the desire to learn more about the intense radiation belts known to surround Jupiter.