Students from Germany and the Southeastern U.S. arrive on the UAH campus to take part in International Space Camp exploring space weather science and its global impacts.

UAH hosts students from Germany and Southeastern U.S. at International Space Weather Camp

Aug 13, 2025

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, recently welcomed students from across the Southeastern U.S. and Germany to the International Space Weather Camp (ISWC), a two-week immersive program explori...

UAH researcher wins $681K NSF CAREER award to study the interaction of shockwaves and solar wind turbulence in the sun’s heliosphere

UAH researcher wins $681K NSF CAREER award to study the interaction of shockwaves and solar wind turbulence in the sun’s heliosphere

Jul 24, 2025

Dr. Lingling Zhao, an assistant professor in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a $681,356 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development...

Dr. Robert Frederick, director of the UAH Propulsion Research Center, presents Dr. John Blevins with a flag that was flown around the moon on the Artemis I mission.

UAH alumnus John Blevins receives Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, premier award for career federal employees

Jul 21, 2025

Dr. John Blevins, an alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has received the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, or “Sammie,” considered the highest honor for career federal employees. ...

The 22nd Annual International Astrophysics Conference was held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and attended by students, faculty and researchers.

Exciting Discoveries and Future Missions Highlight 22nd Annual International Astrophysics Conference in Spain

Jun 24, 2025

The 22nd Annual International Astrophysics Conference (AIAC), held this year in the historic city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, brought together leading scientists from across the globe to discuss the latest breakthroughs and challenges in solar ...

Health in Space class samples astronaut breakfast fare at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

UAH Nursing faculty launches ‘Astronaut Breakfast Day’ to showcase innovative Health in Space course

Apr 30, 2025

To demonstrate the collaborative skills necessary to tackle the practical challenges of living in space, students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are taking a multidisciplinary course recently showcased by an event called ‘Astron...

Dr. Gary Zank, director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), holding a model of the Parker Solar Probe and SWEAP instrument suite created by Blake Parker

UAH development of SWEAP instruments helps Parker Solar Probe win 2024 Collier Trophy

Apr 01, 2025

The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite developed by researchers at The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and the Marshall Space Flight Center for NASA’s Parker...

Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way

UAH breakthrough enables the measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time

Feb 25, 2025

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have pioneered the use of gravitational acceleration measurements of binary pulsars to help illuminate...

NGC 4696, a galaxy within the Centaurus galaxy cluster, 170 million miles from Earth.

UAH physics undergrad co-authors breakthrough study in the journal Nature probing motion of gas in a galaxy cluster

Feb 12, 2025

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an undergraduate: her contributions are being recognized in a study published in the journal Nature. ...

Conceptual rendering shows NASA's Parker Solar Probe about to enter the solar corona, the outermost layer of plasma, or ionized gas

UAH researcher says interaction of kinetic waves and suprathermal particles could be key to unlocking biggest mystery in heliophysics

Feb 04, 2025

Speakers at the inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Breakfast, presented by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), offered messages of economic innovation, growth and cooperation to the capacity audience. ...

Claude Blue, research lead and EPC president; Noa Milivojevic, EPC chief mechanical engineer Ella Hazle, aerospace engineering sophomore; Dmitri Tsahelnik, aerospace engineering and physics sophomore. 

UAH Electric Propulsion Club seeks patent for experimental ion thruster developed by EPC students; presents at International Astronautical Congress in Italy

Jan 07, 2025

The Electric Propulsion Club (EPC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), recently traveled to Milan, Italy, to present STARGATE, an experimental gridded ion thruster developed by the group, at the 75th International Astronautical Congre...