A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

But it may have harmful effects on our planet's magnetic field, as plasma physicist and former Air Force research scientist Sierra Solter — the author of a contentious and yet-to-be-peer ...

A fresh analysis of those observations has now revealed dozens of bright, needle-like filaments of hot plasma, some several ...

For the first time in history, scientists have successfully captured animage of a rare and complex plasma instability, known ...

While Nasa’s budgetary struggle continues, the red planet may be a step closer for China after it unveiled a powerful new ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are harnessing the power of computers to ...

[Workshop From Scratch] was faced with this problem, so he built a motorized magnetic track for his plasma cutter. Thanks to a pair of repurposed electromagnetic door looks and adjustable base ...

How a tokamak works: The electric field induced by a transformer drives a current (big red arrows) through the plasma column. This generates a poloidal magnetic field that bends the plasma current ...