Images taken by Cassini's Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) show that Saturn's ring current is a warped disc that balloons out of the equatorial plane on the planet's dayside and remains a thin ...

Scientists have gotten their best look ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn’s giant magnetic field, finding that it is asymmetric and dynamic, unlike similar rings that ...

Thanks to its strong magnetic field, Earth is protected from solar wind by regions of charged particles, the Van Allen belts. These energetic protons form an electric current that rings our planet, ...

New findings have revealed that the ring current -- an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet -- behaves in a much different way than previously understood. New ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Aninvisible donut of trapped, hot particles surrounding Saturn is all bent out ofshape--a finding ...

New findings based on a year’s worth of observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet behaves ...

New findings based on a year's worth of observations from NASA's Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current - an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet - ...