Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

Watch a nuclear engineer react to overloading plasma balls and xenon lamps while exploring the science of photonic induction.

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

From Curiosity to Career Every great engineer starts with one question: How does this work? For Sergey Macheret, that question ...

Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 device has reached giga-pascal-level plasma pressures thanks to a novel design that independently tunes acceleration and compression. These early results suggest rapid progress ...

Once a testing ground for Soviet weapons, the country is using a unique facility to find materials that withstand plasma that ...

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb proposes that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS emits a 'heartbeat'-like pulse, suggesting it ...