It can be found inside gas giants such as Jupiter and is briefly created during meteorite impacts or in laser fusion ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

Nature Physics - A model for dense ... Quantum plasmas are common not only in astrophysical environments 2, such as the interiors of superdense white dwarfs and Jupiter, ... plasma physics, ...

A cloud of high-energy particles surrounding a distant galaxy cluster offers a rare glimpse into the forces shaping the early ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer ...

The discovery marks the most distant mini halo ever found, doubling the distance of any previously known example. It offers ...

At a June 12 ribbon-cutting event, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory unveiled a new, one-of-a-kind device that represents the next generation of research into fundamental plasma physics. The ...

As the name suggests, plasma physics concerns the physical properties of plasmas. With increasing temperature, all materials are transformed successively from the solid, to liquid and then gaseous ...