Heliophysics investigates the Sun, its dynamic atmosphere and wind, and the manner in which these solar phenomena interact with the interplanetary medium and eventual planetary environments. Space ...

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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 recently selected ECCCO, a CFA-SwRI collaboration, for Phase A mission development. This image shows a coronal mass ejection (CME) forming in the corona, highlighting how ECCCO’s new, wide-field ...

Concept animation of Geospace Dynamics Constellation orbiting Earth through the upper atmosphere. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab WASHINGTON — The director of NASA’s ...

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 ...

It all starts Saturday, Oct. 14, with an annular solar eclipse — often called a “Ring of Fire” eclipse, because only the outer limb of the sun will be visible when the eclipse is at its fullest. And ...

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 ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday said that the solar eclipse kicked off the Heliophysics Big Year last weekend, celebrating solar science and the Sun’s influence on ...