Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN. Although black holes are famous ...

Cold plasma looks like the glow from the "Star Wars" blue light saber but this beam of energy, made of electrons that change polarity at micro-second or nanosecond speeds, could help bones heal faster ...

A team of scientists has an unusual explanation for how and when dark matter — the invisible, mysterious stuff that’s theorized to make up most of the matter in the universe — was formed. The theory ...

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester has found a way to turn liquid metal into plasma, the fourth state of matter and most abundant form of matter in the universe. The effort, which ...

Researchers have produced quark-gluon plasma -- a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe -- with fewer particles than previously thought possible. Researchers at ...

When I was in elementary school, my teacher told me that matter exists in three possible states: solid, liquid, and gas. She neglected to mention plasma, a special kind of electrified gas that’s a ...

Because dark matter is completely invisible to light, science had to look for clever new methods to spot it.

Dark matter is the mysterious substance that comprises about 23 percent of all the mass in our universe, but thus far it has eluded physicists’ many attempts to directly detect it. Maybe instead of ...

An astrophotographer captured a structure that looked like a plasma waterfall on the sun. The structure is believed to be around 60,000-miles-tall. This is the latest in a string of stunning solar ...