“In the world’s largest stellarator facility, high-energy helium-3 ions were generated for the first time using ion cyclotron ...

Maruca, an expert in space plasma physics, is the principal investigator of the mission, which is supported by the new Delaware Space Observation Center (DSpOC) and NASA grants, in partnership with ...

Physicists have used spacecraft data to confirm an important theory of plasma physics that improves our understanding of space weather. A team from Nagoya University in Japan has observed ...

Likewise, the breakthrough he and Barbhuiya have made will change the landscape of plasma and space physics, a feat that doesn't happen often. "There aren't many laws of physics—Newton's laws ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomyreveals an unprecedented look at the turbulent magnetic forces shaping ...

My research is in the general area of space plasma physics, cosmic dust, and planetary science. My primary work takes place at the Institute for Modeling Plasmas ...

solar wind, bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetosphere, magnetotail, radiation belts, ring currents, and upper ionosphere. Among space plasma physics theories, single particle theory and ...

The course introduces the present knowledge of space phenomena and the physical understanding of the plasma environment from the sun to the earth's ionosphere and in the heliosphere. Regions in space ...

plasma physics and many related areas of space physics. Just as impressive is the joy and collegial warmth he brings to this complex work, drawing students, young faculty, colleagues and collaborators ...

UI physics and astronomy professor Jasper Halekas is in charge of an instrument on one of the satellites that will measure speed and direction of electrons in the space plasma. Halekas said the ...