"Constructing the first quadrant is a big achievement." Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a ...

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

The plant will include a complete set of new generation high temperature superconducting magnets to confine and control the deuterium and tritium hydrogen fuel in a plasma many times hotter than the ...