A number of concepts exist for exploiting the solar wind as a means of propulsion: the MagSail, the e-sail, and the plasma magnet. All of these concepts work predominately as drag devices and thus are ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

In recent years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has given us a close-up look at the sun. Among the probe's revelations was the ...

Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to ...

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

This new machine pushed the strength of magnetic fields to a record 35.1 tesla when turned on, a new milestone in ...

In Beijing, China, scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics in Anhui Province have generated a steady magnetic field of 35.1 Tesla, breaking the previous record of 32 ...

The technology could have promising applications for nuclear fusion research and other commercial uses, the researchers said.

A research team led by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an all-superconducting ...

How do we extract energy from space around a spacecraft? If there are differences in the speed of the solar wind or differences in flows of particles around a spacecraft or where a spacecraft is ...

While it’s hard to see the solar wind directly in photos once it leaves the corona, we can measure the gas directly with instruments in space. Scientists have recently gotten up ...