Fellow pop stars Janet Jackson and Beyonce Knowles have also been confirmed as performers at next month's event.
Super Bowl XXXVIII will be televised by CBS to an expected 130 million viewers in the US and a potential worldwide audience of 1 billion viewers.
Said Steven Tyler, Aerosmith's lead singer: "The Super Bowl is Rock and Roll! It's sexy, it's slammin', it's precision, it's passion and pure energy. That's Sweet Emotion to me."
Houston will be home to the Super Bowl for the second time in history, the first coming 30 years ago.
Aerosmith, who opened the NFL season with a performance in Washington, D.C. at "NFL Kickoff Live," will perform in the finale of the pre-game show featuring a tribute to NASA.
Aerosmith previously headlined the Super Bowl XXXV Halftime show with *NSYNC in Tampa in 2001.
The NFL has announced that rock band Aerosmith, will headline the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show at Reliant Stadium in Houston on Sunday, February 1.
