Watch a nuclear engineer react to overloading plasma balls and xenon lamps while exploring the science of photonic induction.

Plasma is often called the fourth state of matter, consisting of a mixture of charged particles, including ions and free electrons ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

An infant botulism outbreak has sickened at least 39 babies across the U.S. and underscored the crucial role of a medication ...

What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Scientists have observed tearing and rejoining of magnetic fields in interacting coronal mass ejections during the historic ...

For Artemis IV, Lunar Outpost will partner with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of ...

Ice grains, illuminated by a green sheet of laser light, are suspended in the plasma discharge (purple). Insets show individual ice grains imaged with 20x magnification.

From microplastics to heavy metals and forever chemicals, people are more aware than ever of the potential dangers lurking in ...