Watch the moment SpaceX’s Starship rocket is enveloped by plasma as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday 14 March. The world’s biggest rocket was launched from Texas in its third - and most ...

Reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma physics is a distinctive branch of magnetic confinement research that explores self-organised plasma equilibria in which the toroidal magnetic field reverses in the ...

Professor Satoshi Fujii (Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) and Assistant Professor Jun Fukushima (Department of Applied Chemistry, ...

A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as "whistlers"—very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic ...

Nuclear fusion is a widely studied process through which atomic nuclei of a low atomic number fuse together to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. Nuclear fusion ...