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

Russia is once again trying to vault itself to the front of the space race, this time with a plasma engine that officials say ...

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

The heat shield on the Orion spacecraft suffered some unexpected cracks during Artemis I, which was uncrewed. While the ...

A doctoral student from the University of Sydney’s School of Physics re-created a little bit of the universe in a bottle.

We are in the middle of a long-term geopolitical race as China, Europe and the U.K. continue pouring billions into fusion ...

To help make commercial fusion energy a reality, PPPL leads the StellFoundry project, which uses AI to sift through enormous amounts of data to determine which fusion system configurations are best.

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

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

In 2025, China once again enjoyed a bumper year of scientific and technological innovation, with major sci-tech achievements emerging one after another. China has become one of the economies with the ...

The machines at their center, called tokamaks, have evolved from experimental curiosities into instruments capable of sustaining confined plasma – matter so hot it mimics the ...

“Hefei is leading the way in China in terms of the depth and breadth of its nuclear fusion industrial chain layout,” said Xu Qiang, chief analyst at Guotai Haitong Securities. "We have been coming to ...