Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

For people who are pregnant or nursing, more use of personal care products is associated with higher detectable levels of synthetic chemicals known to have adverse health effects, a new study found.

When plasma from the sun pounded and compressed the magnetosphere ... which the National Academies' 2023 Planetary Science ...

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.