"Plasma is a charged gas, with strong Coulomb [or electrostatic] interactions," Hu told Live Science. Atoms or molecules can acquire a positive or negative electrical charge when they gain or lose ...

Laser acceleration works by bombarding atoms with light pulses to strip electrons off, creating a plasma—a neutral gas of ions and electrons. Since the electrons are a lot less massive than the ...

When hydrogen atoms are superheated into a plasma, they become positively charged and repel each other. In the sun, intense gravitational forces create extremely high pressures that overcome this ...

Blasting the microwaves without alignment of Heliotron J's magnetic field created a discharge that ripped electrons from their atoms and produced an especially dense plasma. The Institute of ...

Fusion reactor needs to operate at very high temperatures and high enough densities of fuel to achieve its goal, produce ...

Plasma—a hot soup of atoms with free moving electrons and ions—is the most abundant form of matter in the universe, found throughout our solar system in the sun and other planetary bodies.

SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak), the world’s only fusion reactor with ‘negative triangularity’ constructed at the ...

Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's gradually shrinking electrical power supply. Traveling more than 12.8 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Artificial Plasma Clouds in Space ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 219 No. 5 (November 1968), p. 80 doi:10.1038 ...

Instead, these well-known space weather anomalies are called equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs), and ... the Sun’s UV light knocks electrons loose from atoms, forming a diffuse layer of ions ...

How is plasma used on Earth? Plasma happens when gas gets heated to a very high temperature and the atoms lose their electrons. Find out more about this state of matter. Major Funding by the Laura ...