While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

A new frontier in space sustainability may have just opened. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, scientists ...

A spacecraft that sails on light could provide new vantage point on solar eruptions that can disrupt modern electrical and navigation systems An ...

For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of ...

Plasma waves can experience sudden changes in frequency with drastic effects, which are important to correctly model.

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, October 16 at 11am for the talk "Plasma Bubbles in the Earth's Ionosphere: Theory and Observations" by Giorgio Picanco of ...

The Earth found itself inside a stream of solar wind emanating from a coronal hole in the Sun, much earlier than expected.

Space, as far as physics is concerned, is a soundless place. There is no air, no wind, no whisper — only vacuum. And yet, on ...