If we’re going to leave our solar system within a human lifetime, fusion propulsion is the technology to make it happen.” With these words from Pulsar Fusion’s CEO Richard Dinan, the race to Sedna a ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist Yevgeny Raitses, right, with Washington University undergraduate Mitchell Eagles in the PPPL nanolaboratory.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science located on Princeton University's Forrestal ...

Correction: A previous version of this piece incorrectly stated that fusion energy development funding was cut from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In fact, the funding was cut from Princeton ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source.

And David McComas, vice president for the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, said Matthaeus is a “household name” in plasma physics. “Bill has made seminal discoveries and contributions ...

Solar flares, quantum computing, microplastic pollution, direct recycling, schizophrenia, the science of polling, and more. Science fans of all ages are gathering on Saturday mornings over the next ...