For a hydrogen atom, the upward pull of this electric field is 10.6 times stronger than gravity pulling downward, said Alex Glocer, a NASA physicist and co-author of the study.

Two years after this historic flight, NASA has now published its results in a new paper in the journal Nature, and there’s a very good reason why this important field has remained undetectable ...

More information: Alessio Zaccone et al, Microscopic mechanism of electric-field-induced superconductivity suppression in metallic thin films, Physical Review B (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111. ...

The Earth's ambipolar electric field is a phenomenon that occurs in the ionosphere, the upper part of the Earth's atmosphere, where ions and electrons are present in significant quantities.

To measure the ambipolar electric field, the rocket needed “to measure the escape of Earth’s atmosphere at the poles, where some of the planet’s magnetic field lines are open,” Grossman says.

The existence of the field was first hypothesized over 60 years ago. Indeed, several spacecraft flying over Earth's poles in the late 1960s detected a stream of particles from the atmosphere ...

They demonstrated an experimental setup of a high rate of ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion at remarkably lower temperatures by applying an electric field in the presence of a highly active and ...

NASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) was carried aboard Firefly Aerospace’s ...

Using Eliashberg theory, the required electric field strength is quantified as approximately 10 8 V/m, matching experimental observations and enabling advances in superconducting electronics.