Astronomers have mapped the turbulent edge of the Sun where solar matter manages to escape the Sun's fierce magnetic grip.

By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

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A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible warp-drive designs and detection methods.

Astrophysicists in New York have created terrifying simulations of how black holes naturally create dazzling displays ...

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How could the first black holes have formed immediately after the Big Bang, even before the ignition of stars? This question ...

Researchers discovered heat in fusion reactors doesn't diffuse slowly—it executes an American football-style "long pass." ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

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

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...