Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The ...

Defunct satellites, old rocket parts, and thousands of fragments from past missions are rapidly filling Earth's orbit ...

Two colossal plasma fountains tore away from the sun in a breathtaking double blast, one of the most impressive eruptions ...

The vast majority of matter in the universe is plasma: electrically charged gas. Scientists are untangling how dust interacts with plasma both in space and experimentally closer to home.

It took less than 30 minutes for Varda Space Industries’ W-1 capsule to leave its orbital home of eight months and plummet back to Earth. Such a short travel time not only required serious speed ...

Even more significant is that NASA’s Voyager 1 managed to detect weak plasma vibrations in this remote region of space. Previously, the probe detected strong perturbations in the plasma, known ...

Distortion of the plasma phase-space distribution can occur in high-temperature plasmas and is believed to have a significant impact on plasma performance.

Voyager 2 has become the second active spacecraft to enter interstellar space, and the first to measure the interstellar plasma.

University of Iowa scientists helped create instruments for the Voyager, Nasa’s longest mission, in 1977, marking 45 years of space science. When the project started in the 1970s, UI research ...

Plasma Beam Eyed in Space Travel A team of Washington scientists pioneers the concept of the Mag-beam as a technology that could significantly shorten the time it takes to travel to other planets.

Just like litter is a big problem on Earth, space junk is cluttering up outer space. To dispose of this junk, a Tohoku ...