Peer reviewed experiments suggest lightning can give birth to glowing plasmoids that look uncannily like UFOs, sparking fresh ...

Despite a reputation for bestowing tans and warming beaches, the sun is not a soothing place. The middle layer of its churning atmosphere, which reaches temperatures of more than ten thousand degrees ...

A new article describes how heating core of the plasma can create sheared flow that improves stability and performance of fusion devices. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton ...

The study of material plasma exposure experiments and plasma‐material interactions is critical for advancing fusion energy research and the development of next‐generation plasma facing components.

The paper appeared in Space Science Review. There are only a few so-called "heaters" in the world – special stands which create artificial plasma processes in the upper atmosphere by heating them.

PASADENA, Calif.–Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have devised a plasma experiment that shows how huge long, thin jets of material shoot out from exotic astrophysical ...

The "corpse" of a sunspot exploded Monday (April 11), triggering a mass ejection of solar material that is headed in Earth's direction. Sunspots are dark regions on the surface of the sun. They are ...

For seven years it delivered outstanding results for science and technology on the International Space Station, now the successful plasma crystal laboratory PK-3 Plus operated one last time. After ...