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, ...

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

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

"It's saving both time and money." Researchers use Hollywood-inspired 3D printout to test massive energy machine: 'The best money we ever spent' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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.