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Delayed development of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission is one example of the effect of budget problems on NASA's heliophysics program, a new report concluded. Credit: ...

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 ...

HelioSwarm features a hub spacecraft and eight smaller ones that will work together to measure solar wind turbulence. Credit: Univ. of New Hampshire MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — NASA has selected a ...

NASA hosted a livestream Nov. 19 to share newly released images of Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to traverse our solar system. The unprecedented observation campaign utilized a ...

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 ...

Scientists have been studying the near-Earth environment for the better part of a century, but many mysteries -- like where the energetic particles that pervade the area originate and become energized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...