Space Science
Research Snapshot: Eerie Quiet
Stanley Ellis, a research engineer with UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, tests a detector inside Morse Hall’s anechoic chamber, a room lined with pyramid-shaped material that absorbs all sound, radio waves, and electromagnetic radiation. Space scientists rely on this... Read More
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11/15/18UNH Scientists Capture Space Energy Explosion
The journal Science has published results from the MMS satellite mission. -
06/18/18UNH Researcher Captures Best Ever Evidence of Rare Black Hole
Researcher from Space Science Center captured elusive midsize black hole devouring a star. -
06/07/18UNH Researchers Land Roles in NASA Mission to Study Outer Solar System
Researchers and engineers from UNH's Space Science Center have been selected to be a part of a NASA science mission. -
03/15/18Space Radiation: More Hazardous Than We Thought
A new UNH study has implications for human space travel.
Recent Stories
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03/05/15 - For These UNH Students, It Is Rocket ScienceLong before it blasts into space March 12, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will have launched the careers of would-be rocket scientists who contributed to the mission... Read More -
03/05/15 - Space QuartetTen years ago, UNH physics professor Roy Torbert knew that when the university’s Space Science Center (SSC) was awarded a very large role in NASA’s ambitious, four-spacecraft... Read More -
02/18/15 - A Radiation Belt TwoferThis illustration shows the FIREBIRD-II CubeSats in low-Earth orbit and the Van Allen Probes further out in the heart of the radiation belt region. (Background illustration... Read More -
02/20/14 - Luna TunesArtist's rendition of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon. The CRaTER telescope is seen pointing out at the bottom right center of the LRO spacecraft. Illustration by... Read More -
09/12/13 - Dazzling DiscoveriesThe Van Allen Probes elliptical orbits will range in altitude from 373 to 23,000 miles. Artist's rendering courtesy of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory One year after... Read More -
08/08/13 - Smart Students Study Cutting-edge Science with Project SmartIn the crowded atrium of Morse Hall, large posters mounted on easels described cutting-edge science ranging from genetically engineered plants to 3-D bio-printing to an ultra-low... Read More -
07/25/13 - Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space AboveOn Thursday, July 17, 2013, high school students and their University of New Hampshire Project SMART mentors successfully flew twin weather balloons that carried... Read More -
06/13/13 - LunaCats Rocket to Third Place in NASA CompetitionThe 2013 UNH LunaCats team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. L-R: Front row: James Clifford, Jonathan Shepard, Anthony Edmonds, Caleigh MacPherson, Jonathan Wilson; back row... Read More -
05/16/13 - From Manchester to the MoonJosh Chabot '13 and his adviser, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering May-Win Thein, pose with the fruit of three years' labor: a tabletop NASA satellite simulator that... Read More -
05/09/13 - IBEX: The Little Satellite That CouldThis image shows the nearest interstellar gas clouds around the solar system, including the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) and G Cloud, along with positions of neighboring stars... Read More