The three basic states of matter we know, but there’s a fourth that’s WAY more common than you might think. This week is all ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope discovered a highly active repeating fast radio burst, FRB 20240619D, which produced hundreds of pulses, offering fresh insights into magnetars, ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led ...

Learn how the Parker Solar Probe's passage through the Sun's outer atmosphere has shed light on the process that creates ...

Only recently have scientists realized that most of the universe is neither gaseous, liquid or solid. It is plasma, a lively, tricky, often dangerous state of matter whose distinctive ...

“Magnetic reconnection, turbulence and shocks are three fundamental ingredients of the plasma Universe,” says Philippe Escoubet Cluster and Double Star project scientist at ESA.

The immensity of space makes it impossible for humans to discover every hiding place the universe holds. Its infinitude makes ...

These results from RHIC’s PHENIX experiment suggest that these small-scale collisions might be producing tiny, short-lived specks of matter that mimics what the early universe was like nearly 14 ...

At the start, the universe was too hot for atoms to hold onto their electrons. Everything existed as a swirling plasma of ...

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is producing results in plasma science and engineering during a 10-year federal investment.