NASA named Nicola Fox, director of its heliophysics division, as associate administrator for science Feb. 27. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani BROOMFIELD, Colo. — NASA has selected the head of its ...

NASA's IMAP mission was one of three launching together in September 2025. Credit: NASA/Princeton/Patrick McPike NEW ORLEANS — Two NASA heliophysics missions launched together in September are ...

Where were you for the great solar storm of 2024? Sparked over the weekend of May 10 by several outbursts from the sun, this space weather event was the strongest geomagnetic storm in more than two ...

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A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft packed with approximately 6,400 pounds of supplies, spare hardware, and scientific ...

Heliophysics surveys the Sun’s plasma, magnetic and radiative environment and its influence on the near-Earth space. Solar processes, from convective motions in the interior to eruptive phenomena in ...

The Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033 is underway. Please visit the following webpage to learn more: The Space Studies Board shall establish a Heliophysics Survey ...

Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in the field of heliophysics, has died at the age of 94. In the 1950s, Parker developed a theory that predicted solar winds. As NASA notes, Parker pushed the field forward ...

Merchant sailors (and music fans from modern day) have been singing traditional shanties about life on the waves since at least the early 19th century. But you don't need a big body of water to make a ...

How do variations in the Sun’s activity, interplanetary plasmas, and inputs from the interstellar medium influence the energetic particle and dust environment of space and exploration target bodies?