The Sun

Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor - 2 (TSIS-2)
CubeSat Launch Initiative
CubeSats
Goddard Space Flight Center
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
Small Satellite Missions
Space Operations Mission Directorate
The Sun
NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions. The two selections are part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.
Posted June 25, 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
Ames Research Center
Artemis 2
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Space Weather
The Sun
As four astronauts travel around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field.
Posted March 16, 2026
Van Allen Probes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
The Sun
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere almost 14 years after launch.
Posted March 9, 2026
EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Mars
Space Weather
The Sun
Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Over billions of years, the solar wind has stripped away […]
Posted February 26, 2026
Earth
Earth's Moon
Eclipses
Lunar Eclipses
Skywatching
The Solar System
The Sun
Uncategorized
A total lunar eclipse will redden the Moon on March 3, 2026. Here’s what you need to know. 
Posted January 29, 2026
Comets
Heliophysics
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Lucy
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Missions
Perseverance (Rover)
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Planets
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Psyche Mission
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
The Solar System
The Sun
This article was updated to include the full range of dates from the SOHO image. Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign, turning its spacecraft and space telescopes to follow comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. Twelve […]
Posted November 19, 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
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