Plasmoid thrusters have had successful proof of principle experiments done in the lab at Princeton University. The systems should be compact and simple and based upon magnetism present in solar flares ...

Physicists have for the first time directly observed a phenomenon that had previously only been hypothesized to exist. The phenomenon, plasmoid instabilities that occur during collisional magnetic ...

Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) Propulsion Research Center are working on the Plasmoid Thruster Experiment (PTX). It is a stepping stone to a highly efficient propulsion ...

At ITER – the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor, currently under construction in France through international cooperation – the abrupt termination of magnetic confinement of a high ...

The rarest form of lightning, ball lightning, is hard to research given that it is believed to occur naturally only once in every million lightning strikes. But researchers in Colorado have developed ...

Decades-old data from Voyager 2 has revealed something new about the solar system's oddball planet When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in January of 1986, it gave us our first up-close ...