Russian scientists have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to two months.

Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth and triggered auroras in several parts of Earth including in India as wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the Sun rocked the planet.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Key PointsThe May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth.Such belts have ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

A graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama system, has published a paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that builds on ...

In quantum physics, subatomic particles behave strangely—they can be in two places simultaneously, move through solid objects ...

Wausau Pilot & Review A 40-year-old Wausau man accused of assaulting a toddler by forcing rust particles into her body ...