Browse Physics

A new model shows that the nonuniform heating of ions in the solar wind may be explained by resonant interactions with a particular type of plasma wave.

A proposed explanation for puzzling features on the Moon involving small-scale magnetic fields has now been verified with a scaled-down version in the lab.

A laboratory analog of solar plasma offers a new tool in the search for the origin of coronal heating.

Experimental measurements with an x-ray laser test models of how ions behave in plasmas, like those found in stars and laser fusion research.

Experiments show that magnetic waves in a plasma may be effective at controlling energetic electrons.

Dense plasmas created by lasers used for inertial confinement fusion research have been used to extract precise basic nuclear physics data.

Plasma chamber offers a laboratory-scale view of magnetic field eruptions on the sun’s surface.

New satellite measurements may help solve the puzzle of how the sun’s energy heats the corona and solar wind.

A new theory may explain what triggers solar flares, explosions of solar energy that can affect earthly communications.

An ultracold plasma can form spontaneously from a cloud of cold, excited atoms.