Space Science Center

Recent Stories

  • Two exhibits featuring posters and computer kiosks at a museum.
    - An Out Of This World Experience
    High school students collaborated with UNH scientists to create a museum exhibit about humans in space.  Read More
  • van allen belts around the Earth.
    - Space Waves
    UNH researchers have received a $1.62 million grant from NSF to study magnetic waves that impact Earth's radiation belts. Read More
  • All blue room with acoustic pyramid-shaped foam
    - 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... Read More
  • A Simple Instrument for Outer Space
    - A Simple Instrument for Outer Space
    UNH researchers have been awarded $50,000 to design a compact, relatively simple space instrument to measure protons in the solar wind. Read More
  • ocean ice floe
    - $3.8 Million For Climate Change, Snow Depth and Space Research
    Three researchers from UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space have received grants from different government agencies totaling over $3.8 million. The projects... Read More
  • Evening sky with crescent moon.
    - The Air Up There
    NASA's latest mission to explore two unusual atmospheric phenomena will tap UNH faculty and student expertise.  Read More
  • Image of Earth's magnetic field and solar flare from nearby sun.
    - Current Events
    Researchers are using artificial intelligence and student-built magnetometers to improve space weather forecasting and prepare for power outages those storms cause. Read More
  • Banafsheh Ferdousi
    - Stormy Weather
    Banafsheh Ferdousi, a research scientist in the UNH Space Science Center, has received $800,000 from NASA to study space weather that impacts our technology. Read More
  • Nada Al-Haddad
    - Brighter Days Ahead
    Nada Al-Haddad, a research assistant professor in the UNH Space Science Center, has been awarded a prestigious four-year, $690,000 NASA grant to support her solar-based research... Read More
  • Drone image of research tower in forest in autumn
    - Excellence in Citations
    Forty-one current and emeritus UNH researchers are among the world's 100,000 most cited, according to a new study. Read More