UAH researcher Dr. Gary Zank wins 2025 John Adam Fleming Medal, top prize in space physics
Sep 30, 2025
– Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and principal investigator for Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP), has been selec...
UAH researchers use X-rays from quasars to answer one of the three major questions in cosmology: where are the missing baryons?
Sep 03, 2025
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have published a series of two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that resolve one of three major outstanding puz...
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
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...