A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

Pushing scientists closer than ever to understanding the Big Bang, physicists have finally measured the temperature of ...

A breakthrough in solar physics now explains how dense clumps of plasma condense and fall through the Sun’s corona during powerful flares — behaviour long considered puzzling by astrophysicists.Luke ...

Three enormous and peculiar radio light rings were discovered far, far outside our own galaxy, shedding more light on one of ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

Russell M. Kulsrud, 97, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work helped define the modern fields of plasma physics and ...

The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across.

Frank Geurts is a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice and co-spokesperson of the RHIC STAR collaboration.

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant "odd radio circle" ever detected.