Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the ...

It is generally believed that ball lightning is a ball of plasma, and some scientists believe that it is similar to the highly luminous plasma disks that are formed when explosives are detonated. The ...

Quantum field theories are powerful tools for particle physics and condensed matter physics but are rarely used in plasma physics. However, in warm-dense regimes, where matter is partially ionized and ...

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.

A baby version of the sun recently let off an eruption of magnetic plasma gas 10 times larger than any ever seen from a sun-like star, according to new research.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a new discovery by observing and analyzing the first new ...

Cary Forest, a professor of physics and lead researcher for the new Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory (WiPPL), stands next to the Big Red Plasma Ball in Sterling Hall. The Big Red Plasma Ball is ...

The sun, at about 1.4 million kilometers wide, is a huge ball of plasma at the center of our solar system. We've studied it for millennia, dating back to ancient history, and now we're even ...