Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
ESA’s Swarm spots a fast-growing anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field
A representation of the South Atlantic Anomaly in 2025 (Image source: Finlay, C.C. et al., 2025; cropped) Using…
Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly
A major dip in the Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has been puzzling scientists for over…
Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field
The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is…
China Just Created the World’s Most Powerful Magnet and It Could Be Useful In Fusion
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s. Credit: ASIPP In Hefei, China, physicists switched…
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s-Xinhua
Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) record experiment data in Hefei, east…
NASA to study space weather from the ‘energetic beast’ we orbit
(TNND) — NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our…
Physicists Discover a New Equilibrium State in Magnetic Fields and Plasma
What do solar flares, lab-grown plasma, and a nebula 25,000 light-years away have in common? A cosmic twist,…
NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field
For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic…
Forecasting Space Weather With the Power of X-Ray Vision
Earth wears a magnetic cloak called the magnetosphere, which shields us from the constant stream of charged particles…
Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole
Since entering Jupiter’s orbit in 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been hard at work unveiling the many mysteries…