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New images from astronomers are unveiling the turbulent secrets of a supermassive black hole. The black hole, located in the ...

Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the need to integrate the core of the reactor, where plasma must be 10 times ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft sometimes lies directly between the sun and Earth, making it ideally placed to analyse powerful solar storms that could damage electronic systems on our planet ...

Experts say the right kind of propulsion system could carry spacecraft to Saturn in just two years. The direct fusion drive ...

More than half of your blood is comprised of plasma. Donating plasma is a longer process than donating blood. Human plasma is used to produce therapies that treat disease. You’ve heard that you can ...

The aurora borealis has been remarkably bright recently. Space weather physicist Tamitha Skov reveals what's going on and how ...

The result is thanks to the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft. The shimmering northern lights that streak across Alaska's skies have wilder cousins on Jupiter — they're bigger, stranger, and now tied ...

Here’s how it works. A large solar prominence (bottom right) bursts from the sun while a plasma tornado (top right) rages nearby. (Image credit: Maximilian Teodorescu) A giant solar tornado and a ...

The 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics took place in Marseille from 7 to 11 July.