Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled farther than any human-made object—well beyond the planets and into interstellar space. But recently, the probes transmitted data that stunned scientists: signals and ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

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

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

Researchers in China have developed a way of locating giant "equatorial plasma bubbles" in the ionosphere by analyzing the ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is the nation’s premier physics lab and a global leader in plasma research. Shown here is one of PPPL's latest innovations, unveiled June 12, 2025: the ...

While on Earth, matter exists in three forms: solid, liquid or gas; in space, 99.9% of the matter exists as plasma. Formed of loose ions and electrons, this substance exists in a supercharged ...

The scattered waves create a pattern of bright and dim patches that drifts over our radio telescopes as Earth, the pulsar and plasma all move through space. From our vantage point, this causes the ...

More information: Chen Cui et al, Vlasov simulations of electric propulsion beam, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/ad98c0 ...