Watch the moment SpaceX’s Starship rocket is enveloped by plasma as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday 14 March. The world’s biggest rocket was launched from Texas in its third - and most ...

A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Three PPPL researchers have earned the prestigious Kaul Foundation Prize for their groundbreaking work in fusion stability.

Nobody ever said the Light Saber was a practical weapon – it's no match for a good blaster, if you ask me – but it exerts a powerful fascination. Special Operations Command have "completed ongoing ...

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

Professor Satoshi Fujii (Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) and Assistant Professor Jun Fukushima (Department of Applied Chemistry, ...

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as "whistlers"—very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic ...

Reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma physics is a distinctive branch of magnetic confinement research that explores self-organised plasma equilibria in which the toroidal magnetic field reverses in the ...

The Sun's magnetic field does impact the movement of plasma on the Sun's surface, but it does not actually impact the amount ...

Dr. Alexander Fridman, the John A. Nyheim Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and a pioneer of plasma technology, has been awarded the 2019 Plasma Chemistry Award ...