Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captured a mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this ...

Scientists have confirmed that eruptions from distant stars can escape their star's pull. A radio telescope in the ...

A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events ...

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

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

Fusion energy is being researched and developed as a new source of electric power that will contribute to the realization of a carbon-neutral society. At the National Institute for Fusion Science, ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

Space plasma physics examines the behaviour of ionised gases in planetary and astrophysical environments where electromagnetic forces dominate over collisional interactions. This field explores ...

Forecasters had issued a severe space weather alert Tuesday after the sun released one of its most powerful eruptions of the ...

In what already has been a stellar career, University of Delaware physicist William H. Matthaeus has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious honors ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to return to Earth after an unexpected extended mission on the ISS. NASA's Crew-10 is scheduled to launch on March 12, with Wilmore and Williams ...