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 ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

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 ...

Far past the familiar boundaries of our solar system, NASA's intrepid Voyager spacecraft are sending back mind-boggling data, ...

The Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, or PPPL, has formed a partnership with venture capital firm ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will partner with venture capital firm SOSV and the New Jersey Economic Development ...

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 ...