Heliophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Ionosphere
Science Mission Directorate
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Space Weather
The Sun
Wallops Flight Facility
High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and then dissipate. Now, new results from a NASA sounding rocket — a suborbital research rocket […]
Posted September 2, 2026
Climate Modeling
Earth
Earth Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Heliosphere
Kepler / K2
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
The Sun
At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the Sun’s history may have helped create Earth’s unique climate and driven previously unexplained climatic shifts.   In new research, scientists at NASA’s SHIELD (Solar Wind with Hydrogen I
Posted August 24, 2026
Ames Research Center
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
The Sun
The Sun & Solar Physics
As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever.  Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun) has developed a […]
Posted August 14, 2026
Coronagraph
Coronal Mass Ejections
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
The Sun
Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test.
Posted August 4, 2026
Earth
Earth's Moon
EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Sun
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light.
Posted July 24, 2026
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Opportunities For Educators to Get Involved
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Science Activation
In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages in a fun-filled weekend of hands-on science activities and experiments.
Posted May 27, 2026
Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
International Space Station (ISS)
Space Weather
The Sun
On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its planned two-year mission.
Posted May 21, 2026
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Science Activation
The Sun
A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is now available for people to learn while showing their artistic side.
Posted May 5, 2026
Earth's Magnetic Field
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Magnetosphere
Space Weather
The Sun
Earth’s magnetic field is like a powerful trap. It lures electrically charged particles in space, near our planet, and snares them in an invisible, doughnut-shaped pen around Earth known as the ring current.
Posted May 1, 2026
Citizen Science
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science project approaches this in a unique way: they compare the Earth’s magnetic field to a giant harp in space.
Posted April 17, 2026
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