NASA’s Parker Solar Probe entered the solar atmosphere.

UAH researcher wins NASA FINESST scholarship to study connection between solar wind turbulence and energetic particles

Aug 30, 2024

Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Scie...

Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket carrying RockSat-X.

UAH TERMINUS student team successfully launches NASA RockSat-X payload into space

Aug 28, 2024

Team TERMINUS from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, successfully launched a student-developed payload aboard a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket that featured two experiments designe...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science.

UAH researcher wins $750K EPSCoR grant to support STROBE-X explorations of gravitational wave sources, black holes and dark matter

Aug 05, 2024

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a $750,000 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) award to support STROBE-X, a planned $1 billion probe-class NASA observatory that aims to unl...

The solar atmosphere, a region that extends eight million kilometers above the Sun's surface.

First-time UAH study sheds new light on mystery of why solar corona is so much hotter than Sun’s surface

Jul 26, 2024

In a new study published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a researcher from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, explores critical aspects of a phenomenon called kinetic Alfvén waves (KAW) to ...

The UAH TERMINUS Spaceflight Research Group displays the tethers

UAH TERMINUS student group set to launch biggest, most advanced spacecraft with NASA

Jul 25, 2024

This August, a student team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is set to launch its biggest payload yet into the upper atmosphere from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va...

Dr. Michael Newchurch outside the UAH SWIRLL Building with his instrument truck the Rocket-city Ozone

Professor Newchurch Receives NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal in April 2024 for his in Air-Quality and Atmospheric-Chemistry Research

Jul 24, 2024

Prof. Michael Newchurch, faculty in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science and a principal investigator in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), received the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal...

Promotions Tenure

UAH promotion, tenure awards for 2024-2025 year given to 25 outstanding faculty members

Jun 07, 2024

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recognized 25 faculty members for their outstanding performance and overall excellence by awarding them tenure and/or promotion starting with the 2024-2025 academic year. ...

Students from The University of Alabama at the finish line

UAH engineering students top NASA HERC Rover Challenge for second consecutive year

Apr 24, 2024

For the second year in a row, engineering students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of the University of Alabama System, have captured first place in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) competition. ...

Gamma Ray Burst

UAH astrophysics research advances understanding of how the light of gamma-ray bursts is produced

Apr 22, 2024

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the Sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. ...

Zachary White working with plasma in a physics lab.

UAH-managed program offers STEM students paid summer internships in plasma physics

Feb 01, 2024

University students studying in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields can apply immediately for paid summer internships in plasma physics funded by Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP), a University of Ala...