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

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

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

Researchers account for constant change in plasma's composition within models centered around the solar atmosphere.

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

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

Three new ORCS – "odd radio circles" – have been found associated with giant, active galaxies, giving astronomers clues as to ...

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

Deep in outer space, astronomers have discovered another "odd radio circle" — the latest in a short list of mysterious rings ...

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