There are huge, invisible structures in the ionosphere that are high above the surface of the Earth. These structures are ...

Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled farther than any human-made object—well beyond the planets and into interstellar space. But ...

Voyager 2’s plasma science instrument is still functioning, so it can take direct measurements of the density of the plasma in interstellar space. Space plasma is matter made of charged ...

On Sept. 5, 2022, an enormous, undulating stream of plasma shot across the solar surface like a snake, and on Sept. 24, 2022, a colossal 1-million-mile long plume of plasma erupted from the sun's ...

OverviewThe Space Plasma Group at the University of Colorado studies the nonlinear evolution of space and laboratory plasmas driven by electric currents and beams of energetic particles. Recent ...

Space plasma physics examines the behaviour of ionised gases in planetary and astrophysical environments where electromagnetic forces dominate over collisional interactions.

Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau, who is based near Rafaela in Argentina, captured the striking image on March 9 using specialized camera equipment. The plasma wall "rose some 100,000 km [kilometers, or ...

Observation of plasma phase-space distribution is an important theme not only in fusion plasmas but also in plasma research on celestial bodies, the sun, and auroras, ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

A UK-built spacecraft engine that runs on metal is preparing for its first test in space, in a mission that could pave the ...

Oleg Batishchev designed the light, cheap Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster for deep space travel. The engine relies simply on the acceleration of plasma, a gaseous cloud in which atoms have been stripp ...