Cold plasma is an electrically energized gas that can be generated at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.

UAH researcher wins $1.18 million NSF award to advance cold-plasma technologies to help farmers grow more food with fewer resources

Oct 26, 2026

What if a single treatment before planting could help crops grow stronger, withstand drought and produce more usable food, without adding chemicals or genetically modifying the plants? ...

Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund, COSPAR council president, presents Dr. Gary Zank, director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), with the 2026 Committee on Space Research Space Science Award in Florence, Italy.

UAH Director of CSPAR, Dr. Gary Zank, receives international COSPAR Space Science Award; minor planet named in his honor

Aug 26, 2026

A lifetime of probing the invisible forces that shape our solar system has earned a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researcher one of the highest honors in international space science ...

Savaria Parrish, Pragya Natarajan and Stephanie Manasterski, the first three UAH graduate students to receive fellowships in the National Science Foundation’s

Three incoming UAH students win NSF EGFP grants highlighting student success; research opportunities still available for top STEM graduates

Aug 21, 2026

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is welcoming three graduate students who won research fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competit...

Parker Solar Probe carries FIELDS instrument suite measuring electric fields, magnetic fields, plasma waves and radio emissions in the solar corona and solar wind.

UAH researcher finds cosmic dust could play key role in cracking long-standing mystery of solar corona heating, opening new field in heliophysics

Jul 01, 2026

A new study led by a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville suggests that tiny charged dust grains near the Sun may significantly influence how energy moves through the solar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun. ...

The Martian Year 34 global dust storm, a planet-encircling event that occurred on Mars in 2018

UAH researcher finds Martian dust storms may generate atmospheric electrical conditions that could impact Mars missions

Jun 30, 2026

A new study by a doctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, suggests global dust storms on Mars may organize the Martian atmosphere into regions favorable for electrical activit...

A widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per hour

UAH researcher earns NASA Early Career Achievement Medal for advancing AI-driven foundational models for science

May 26, 2026

Dr. Sujit Roy, a researcher in the Earth Systems Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been awarded the NASA Early Career Achievement Medal. ...

These awards included UAH Foundation Staff Awards; Research and Creative Activity Undergraduate Mentor Award; College Outstanding Faculty Awards; University Distinguished Teaching Award; University Distinguished Research, Creative Achievement and Scholarly Performance Award; University Researcher of the Year Award, and the new faculty and staff Made a Difference Award

UAH celebrates outstanding faculty, staff at 2026 University Awards for Excellence event on April 23

May 12, 2026

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) honored the achievements of 23 faculty and staff members on April 23 at the 2026 University Awards for Excellence ceremony in the Student Services Building ballroom. ...

Dr. Gary P. Zank receiving the award from AKA CEO, Reed and SER Director, Adams.

Dr. Gary P. Zank Recognized with Alpha Kappa Alpha’s (AKA) Champion Award for Outstanding Community Support

May 08, 2026

Gary P. Zank, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, has been recognized with the prestigious Champion Award from Alpha...

Image of MaGIXS-2 sounding rocket launch, 30 July 2024 from White Sands Missile Range, NM

UAH researcher wins $1.27M award to study dynamic evolution of plasma conditions during a solar flare

Feb 03, 2026

Despite decades of observations, our understanding of plasma conditions during solar flares has been limited by instrument capabilities. ...

Sarah Dalessi, a graduate student in the UAH College of Science, holding a model of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

UAH student researcher leads discovery of fastest gamma-ray burst ever recorded

Dec 08, 2025

– Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a paper on arXiv detailing the discovery of the fastest gamma-ray ...