Space Plasma News Today

Catch up on the week's biggest stories about people, places, events and activities happening in Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley.

Students from Germany, South Africa, and the United States are in the Rocket City taking part in the International Space Weather Camp internship at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 19, 2023 - The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has announced that three researchers associated with the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) have discovered a gamma-ray burst (G

The Parker Solar Probe is providing NASA researchers with insights into how the sun accelerates particles to a million miles per hour.

Auburn University is part of a $20 million collaboration among nine Alabama universities and one private firm to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering, or PSE.

The grant solidify Alabama as an international hub for plasma research.

When big blasts of energy from the sun envelop the Earth, they can be so strong that a 2015 event so weakened Earth’s protective magnetic field that it penetrated to the atmosphere, posing a threat to everything from circling space station astronauts to delicate electronics and communication systems.

A solar physicist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a five-year, $616,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how

Karwar: Dinesh Vasanth Hegde, from Sasiguli village in Siddapur taluk, has been awarded a three-year Future Investigators in Nasa Earth and Space Scie.

At its Annual Meeting, USRAs Council of Institutions elected the following four Board members: Daniel E. Hastings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was elected Region I Trustee Wayne A. Scales, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), was elected Region III Trustee Elizabeth A. Lada, University of Florida, was elected Region IV Trustee General Lester L. Lyles, United States Air Force, (Ret.) was elected At-Large Trustee. Dr. John A. Montgomery, Chair of the Boa...