Space Science Center
UNH Awarded $24 Million to Build Solar Wind Sensors for NOAA
The University of New Hampshire has been awarded $24.3 million by NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to build sensors for a high-priority alert system that will monitor the effects of space weather and the solar wind — caused by explosions on the sun —... Read More
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08/08/245 Ways Wildcats Are Staying Cool This Summer
Summer of ’24 has already broken heat records here in New England, but some in our UNH community are staying cool. Here are five ways our ’Cats are... -
07/25/24UNH Makes Space Technology Available to Industry
UNH has launched its Space Technology Hub, a first-of-its-kind center in the region that provides testing facilities and expertise to the commercial... -
04/03/24Student-led Project Examines Sun’s Corona During Total Eclipse
Six Ph.D. physics students from UNH were selected to participate in Citizen CATE 2024 project to collect data during the total solar eclipse. -
03/20/24Predicting Solar Weather With Machine Learning
New grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation further UNH research into magnetospheric processes.
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03/04/18 - Space Science by the NumbersA quick look at six decades of UNH space science research. Read More -
11/21/17 - Space Physicist Named AAAS FellowEOS director Harlan Spence is recognized by his peers. Read More -
08/11/17 - Chasing the MoonUNH faculty are traveling to what's known as the path of totality to witness the Aug. 21 eclipse. Find out where they're going. Read More -
08/10/17 - We’re All HeliophysicistsNathan Schwadron, professor of physics in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. Learn more about Schwadron's research in this video. (Photo: Jacob Withee,... Read More -
05/25/17 - Predicting Space WeatherA UNH researcher has identified key differences in solar wind models. Read More -
04/15/17 - Research on the Edge: Space ScienceThe first data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS), launched in 2015 with nearly half of its scientific instruments coordinated or built by UNH, were published in... Read More -
03/01/17 - Spaced Out“Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another.” —Plato, The Republic, 342 BCE Last week, when NASA announced the discovery of seven new... Read More -
02/06/17 - Feeding FrenzyA giant black hole ripped apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to research led by UNH. This black hole meal is more than... Read More -
11/21/16 - How's the Weather in Space?Rocket with instruments designed by UNH researchers blasted into space Nov. 19 (Photo: NASA) State-of-the-art space weather instrumentation developed by researchers at the UNH’s... Read More -
10/14/16 - UCAR BoardHarlan Spence has been elected to serve as a member of the board of trustees of the UCAR. Read More