NASA’s GNEISS mission will use rockets and ground sensors to map three-dimensional electrical currents in auroras, offering direct measurements of auroral pathways in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

Low-temperature plasmas are intrinsically non-equilibrium systems in which electromagnetic fields, particle transport, and thermodynamic processes interact ...

Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons. Magnetic fields then funnel and accelerate the ...

Solar observers are currently focusing on a rapidly evolving sunspot that has just turned toward Earth, revealing an unusually unstable magnetic structure. Ongoing observations indicate that this ...

According to the research, lead levels in human hair from residents of the Greater Salt Lake City region have plummeted by nearly 100-fold since the 1970s. The driving force behind this precipitous ...

As a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Leah investigates how supermassive black holes and their powerful plasma jets influence the ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

Homicide detectives are investigating after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab director and professor was found shot to death in his Brookline home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was taken to ...

The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t typically able to peek directly inside a reactor. Some ...

Russell Kulsrud, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, died on Sept. 23 at the age of 97. “Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics ...

ABSTRACT: We present a Lie symmetry classification of 2D proper-time Maxwell’s equations, deriving an 8-dimensional Lie algebra and constructing rotationally invariant Bessel function solutions and ...