Space Weather

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
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
Earth
Heliophysics
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well as astronauts in space.
Posted June 19, 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
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
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
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
NASA en español
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Earth Science
Exosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Read this press release in English here. La NASA y la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés) lanzaron el miércoles tres nuevas misiones para investigar la influencia del Sol en todo el sistema solar. A las 7:30 a. m. EDT, un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX despegó del Complejo de Lanzamiento […]
Posted September 24, 2025
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Earth Science
Exosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
Kennedy Space Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. At 7:30 a.m.
Posted September 24, 2025
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