Heliophysics Division

General
2024 Solar Eclipse
Eclipses
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Science Mission Directorate
Solar Eclipses
The Solar System
NASA’s coverage of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has earned two nominations for the 46th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominations on May 1, recognizing NASA’s outstanding work in sharing this rare celestial event with audiences around the world.
Posted May 8, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
The Sun
The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar Probe mission has been awarded the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA).
Posted March 25, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Uncategorized
Wallops Flight Facility
Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere.  The experiment’s outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora’s interaction with the thermosphere.
Posted March 21, 2025
Auroras
CubeSats
EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
Small Satellite Missions
The Sun
Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14.
Posted March 15, 2025
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Ionosphere
Mesosphere
Science Mission Directorate
The Sun
Uncategorized
Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission’s first trove of scientific data, crucial to investigate how and why subtle changes in Earth’s atmosphere cause disturbances, as well as how these atmospheric disturbances impact technological sy
Posted March 14, 2025
CubeSats
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Ionosphere
Space Weather
The Sun
Van Allen Probes
Key Points The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the Sun rocked the planet. Brilliant auroras engulfed the skies, and some GPS communications were temporarily disrupted.
Posted February 6, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Space Weather
The Sun
For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one team has identified flickering loops in the solar atmosphere, or corona, that seem to signal when […]
Posted January 15, 2025
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Magnetic Field
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Magnetosphere
Marshall Space Flight Center
Science & Research
The Sun
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted January 3, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Solar Flares
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Sun
Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour […]
Posted December 27, 2024
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