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

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

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

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

This weekend's night sky will feature one of the best meteor showers of the year on Dec. 13-14. The Geminid meteor shower ...

Being slight oddities, brown dwarfs occupy a strange but useful niche in astronomy. Unlike exoplanets, which are often ...

This was the second moon landing mission organized by the Japanese startup that concluded with a failure, except this ...

Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

The new "Sports360" exhibit features 25 hands-on stations inspired by football, baseball, hockey, soccer and Olympic sports.

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

The world’s supply of many life-saving medications depends on people in the United States deciding to sell their blood plasma ...

An exhibition that immerses visitors in the science of athletic performance is about to debut. Details of the “Sports360” ...