Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

As a result, it became possible for the first time in the world to measure the plasma phase-space distribution at a high speed of 10,000 Hz (10,000 times per second). This is a 50-fold improvement ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

Plasma physics is the study of charged particles and fluids interacting with self-consistent electric and magnetic fields. It is a basic research discipline that has many different areas of ...

The Space Plasma Group at the University of Colorado studies the nonlinear evolution of space and laboratory plasmas driven by electric currents and beams of energetic particles. Recent investigations ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Artificial Plasma Clouds in Space ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 219 No. 5 (November 1968), p. 80 doi:10.1038 ...