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/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected four small explorer missions to conduct concept studies. These studies aim to expand knowledge of the dynamics of the Sun and...

Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields — among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.

NASA completed the space environment tests for its Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) and will soon launch it to the ISS.

NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) project - a mission to explore electrical currents in Earth's upper atmosphere - has passed a crucial developmental milestone, after rigorous review, moving the mission from the design phase to the...

Plasma is rare on Earth, but it fills the sky. To more deeply understand this state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible universe, NASA's HelioSwarm mission will deploy a "swarm" of spacecraft to gather data. UArizona assistant professor Kristopher Klein will serve as the mission's deputy principal investigator.