Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

Microsoft says its researchers have created a new quantum computer processor that relies on a never-before-seen state of matter. The technological leap—called Majorana 1—represents a major ...

Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.

But none sound as impressive as developing a new state of matter. There are three fundamental states of matter — solid, liquid, and gas — and two exotic forms that we know as plasma and the ...

And the glowing colors of neon signs are created by plasma and so is the light inside a fluorescent bulb. For more information about states of matter, check out the Science Trek website.

"It's the only book I've read in my adult years that I keep thinking about every so often, even long after finishing it." ...

This plasma may soon collide with Earth and cause aurorae. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory The plasma released on July 21 appears dark due to it being cooler and more dense than the sun beneath it.

In nature, matter naturally exists in one of four states. The most common (and least familiar) of these states in the visible universe is a plasma, an ionized gas composed of ions, electrons and ...