Ball lightning - a slow-moving ball of light that is occasionally seen at ground level during thunderstorms - has puzzled scientists for centuries. There have also been reports of ball lightning in ...

Ball lightning – the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally seen during thunderstorms – has been created in the lab. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the ...

Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison built a swirling orb of plasma they’re calling a “miniature Sun” — so they can study how stars work up close. The mini-sun, complete with its own ...

The Big Red Plasma Ball is pictured in Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Oct. 2, 2017. The Big Red Plasma Ball, part of the new Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory (WiPPL) being ...

A new study by physicists mimicked solar winds in the lab, confirming how they develop and providing an Earth-bound model for the future study of solar physics. The sun's solar wind affects nearly ...

T he sky could be filled with auroras thanks to a rare occurrence. Aurora borealis, a stunning display of neon lights in the ...

People are familiar with three states of matter of solid, liquid and gas. There is also a fourth state of matter, called plasma. It was first identified in a laboratory in the late 1870s by Sir ...