Researchers in the US have just discovered a new behavior in plasmas after recreating ...

Voyager 1 – one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space – still works and zooms toward infinity. The craft has long since zipped past ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

The findings could clarify the origins of the enigmatic and brilliant emissions that often come from the deep recesses of space. reading time 2 minutes A team of researchers believes the flurry of ...

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has been awarded two prestigious Consolidator Grants from the European Research ...

After 8 months in orbit, Varda's first reusable capsule made a safe return to Earth on Feb. 21. It took less than 30 minutes for Varda Space Industries’ W-1 capsule to leave its orbital home of eight ...

An innovative ESA-backed instrument to sample the space weather environment in-situ is set to join the International Space Station. Norway’s multi-Needle Langmuir Probe, m-NLP, due to be fitted to the ...

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Space plasma physics examines the behaviour of ionised gases in planetary and astrophysical environments where electromagnetic forces dominate over collisional interactions. This field explores ...

A remarkable celestial event has given astronomers an unparalleled view of the universe. The comet 3I/ATLAS recently painted ...

A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun's fiery surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun. When you ...