Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

A renowned plasma physicist has stunned the astronomical community by claiming that 3I/ATLAS is visible, not obscured behind ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

The development of current drive techniques in plasma physics has advanced significantly over recent years, offering promising routes for non-inductive current generation in both experimental and ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

An extrapolation technique aims to address the gap between Hall effect thruster performance in space and in laboratory ...

Dr. Wurtele joins at a pivotal time for nT-Tao as the company advances its fusion research capabilities and accelerates toward commercialization. His deep expertise in plasma physics, accelerator ...

Physicists used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The journal PNAS published the findings by experimental and ...

Nuclear and plasma physics form complementary pillars in our understanding of the fundamental forces and states of matter. Nuclear physics investigates the structure, dynamics and interactions of ...

Around the world, research is advancing to efficiently confine fusion plasma and harness its immense energy for power ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...