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 ...

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 ...

Flares from the sun’s surface and the powerful pulse of charged particles that shoot through space carry both delight and ...

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 ...

During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the sun's corona—its outer atmosphere—in ways they are unable to do at any other time. The brightest part of the sun is so ...

Picture this: You're standing in Asheville, North Carolina, surveying the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The devastation is palpable – hundreds missing or dead, thousands of lives upended, and ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight is hosting an event for local media on Tuesday, June 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. This half-day event will showcase some of the Center’s state-of-the-art facilities, ...

Six CU Boulder scientists have been selected to contribute their expertise on committees and panels of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Heliophysics encompasses ...

NASA and IBM led the development of a groundbreaking new heliophysics AI model, validated by a team of scientists from eight American institutions led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Andrés ...

A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence system built by Nasa in collaboration with IBM can predict violent solar storms threatening satellites and power grids two hours before they erupt from the ...

In a remarkable breakthrough, NASA's Voyager spacecraft has ventured beyond the Solar System to reveal a fascinating phenomenon: a searing "wall" of high temperature located outside our cosmic ...