NASA announced that it will be sending instruments built by researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

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

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Mayonnaise is having a moment far beyond the sandwich. In orbit and on the lab bench, scientists are turning this everyday condiment into a precision tool to probe how complex fluids behave in ...

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

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third lunar mission. It aimed to show a soft landing and rover movement. Vikram landed near the ...

Reduced Physics for Resolving Ionospheric and Neutral Variability Abstract: Many geospace observations contain rich structure but are challenging to invert directly into physical parameters. In this ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...