Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Yevgeny Raitses and Elena Belova were named PPPL’s 2024 Distinguished Research Fellows for their exceptional contributions to ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

Phase-space tomography has newly discovered cases where rightward and leftward waves occur simultaneously. Those waves accelerate more particles, which is thought to lead to more efficient plasma ...

The 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 investigations ...

Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions.

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

Researchers used supercomputer simulations to unlock the secrets of electrons in plasma beams ejected by electric propulsion ...

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...

it is necessary to know the change in the plasma's phase-space distribution, resolved in velocity and space coordinates. Along with the already-existing “high-resolution spectrometer” and “h ...