AIP Publishing has selected Stephen C. Jardin, PhD, Principal Research Physicist and Professor at the Plasma Physics Faculty ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

Around the world, research is advancing to efficiently confine fusion plasma and harness its immense energy for power ...

A team of researchers from TU Wien has shed new light on the behavior of electrons fleeing a solid material. Their research ...

For decades, scientists have dreamed of creating a miniature version of the sun on Earth – a machine capable of producing ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

If you picture an electron breaking free from a solid, the process seems simple. Give it enough energy, and it should blast ...

It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion.

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted ...

A collaboration between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...