A new frontier in space sustainability may have just opened. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, scientists ...

Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to ...

Zap Energy is trying to replicate on Earth the reactions that power the sun and the stars in pursuit of clean, nearly ...

Japan has a remarkable idea for disposing of space junk and debris without the need to ever come into contact with it, which ...

This technology offers a solution to the continuous accumulation of space debris, such as defunct satellites and spent rocket ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

With 14,000 pieces of space junk floating in LEO, scientists need a safe, reliable, and affordable way to do some clean ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar ...

Space plasma physics examines the behaviour of ionised gases in planetary and astrophysical environments where electromagnetic forces dominate over collisional interactions. This field explores ...

It’s not every day a student experiment hitches a ride aboard a NASA rocket, but that’s exactly what a University of Delaware student team achieved earlier this week. The Terrier-Improved Malemute ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...