Heliophysics Division

Langley Research Center
B200
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Modeling
NASA Aircraft
Radiation
Science & Research
Science in the Air
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight path planning.
Posted September 26, 2025
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
The Sun
Uncategorized
This story is also available in Spanish. A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions […]
Posted September 18, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our solar system in part because of the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun that extends […]
Posted September 17, 2025
Heliophysics Division
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood.
Posted September 16, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Sun
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere.
Posted July 10, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
Space Weather
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
The Sun
An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise.  Two days earlier, the Sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a cloud of energetic particles, magnetic fields, and solar material — toward Earth. Space scientists […]
Posted July 1, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Ionosphere
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
The Solar System
The Sun
Uncategorized
Wallops Flight Facility
Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics
NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13.
Posted June 12, 2025
Coronagraph
Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Space Weather
The Sun
The Sun & Solar Physics
Key Points: Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the Sun.
Posted June 11, 2025
Science Mission Directorate
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
The Solar System
The Sun
The Sun & Solar Physics
Will the Sun ever burn out? Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It’s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen. Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventually, it will use up all of that hydrogen. But in the […]
Posted May 15, 2025
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