At a June 12 ribbon-cutting event, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory unveiled a new, one-of-a-kind device that represents the next generation of research into fundamental plasma physics. The ...

The Einstein Probe space telescope has captured a powerful X-ray outburst from a nearby K-type star, offering a rare, ...

A recent CU Boulder study suggests that confined flares are more efficient at heating plasma and producing ionizing radiation than comparable eruptive flares While many studies have compared the ...

In a spacious room with towering ceilings, a gleaming device resembling a metal barrel the size of an SUV lies on its side, ready to perform some science. Known as the Facility for Laboratory ...

Fukuoka, Japan—Using twelve high-powered lasers, researchers recreated small solar flares in order to study the mechanisms behind a fundamental astronomical phenomenon known as a magnetic reconnection ...

Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Observations of the slip-running reconnection in active region 13107, as seen by the IRIS (inset) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory / Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument. The evolution of ...

The team of researchers stimulated a turbulent magnetic reconnection in which the Sun's anti-parallel magnetic field collide, beak, and realign dramatically. Thus, this unleashes a huge amount of ...

In just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the whole world for 20,000 years. An explosive process called magnetic reconnection triggers these solar flares and scientists ...