The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall establish a Decadal Survey Committee (the “Survey Committee”) to develop a comprehensive science and mission strategy for solar and ...

NASA’s Heliophysics Big Year begins Saturday, Oct. 14, and celebrates the study of the sun and the way its properties and atmosphere influence space and planets, including Earth. An annular eclipse ...

Heliophysics is the study of the Sun, its electromagnetic activity, and how its behavior impacts the Earth. Aurora was relatively bright in the sky over eastern Jordan Lake. Neal K. Shah, CEO ...

NASA's heliophysics experts explain how space weather forecasting works, and why geomagnetic storms seem to be more disruptive than ever. By Eva Botkin-Kowacki Updated Dec 4, 2022 5:00 PM EST ...

That’s where the field of heliophysics comes in—and 2025 is set to be a banner year for folks who study the sun. Here to tell us more is Meghan Bartels, a senior news reporter at Scientific ...

NASA has selected a new SwRI-managed heliophysics mission focused on investigating the Sun’s middle corona — an enigmatic region of the Sun’s atmosphere driving solar activity — for a ...

In heliophysics, a Kappa distribution is a statistical model that describes the velocity distribution of particles in space plasmas, particularly in the solar wind.

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 announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency's Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation, or JEDI, will capture ...

Susanna Finn, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology. She is currently on detail to NASA Headquarters as an IPA Program Scientist in the Science Mission ...