This Special Issue of the Journal of Advanced Research results from the third International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) International Symposium organized in Luxor, Egypt, from 13 to 17 November 2011. The first IAGA Symposium was held October 5–9, 2008, in Cairo and addressed ‘‘Space Weather and its Effects on Spacecraft’’. The second Symposium was also in Cairo, from 4 to 8 December 2009, and addressed ‘‘Solar Wind––Space Environment Interaction’’. | Special issue on ‘‘Heliospheric Physics during and after a deep solar minimum’’