NOAA confirms start of new sunspot cycle
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A new solar cycle is under way. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday that the first sunspot of a new 11-year cycle has appeared in the sun's northern hemisphere.
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The Sun is in the thick of one of the longest and stormiest periods in 8000 years, say researchers who have tracked down an 11,400-year record of stormy sunspot activity in tree rings.
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Something strange happened on the sun last week: all the sunspots vanished. This is a sign, say scientists, that solar minimum is coming sooner than expected.
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La Nina conditions are developing in the Pacific Ocean, and that cooling of waters generally brings a more active Atlantic hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.
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NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories (STEREO) sent back their first images of the sun this week and with them a view into the sun's mounting activity.One image shows the first coronal mass ejection (CME) observed by STEREO's Ahead spacecraft, taken Dec. 9.
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A new space observatory is preparing for a mid-November spaceflight despite setbacks caused by hurricanes that washed across its Florida launch pad.
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Twin NASA probes aimed at the Sun are sending home super-sized panoramas of Earth's nearest star as they take up positions to track explosive solar storms.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA restarted its   countdown clocks on Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center for the   launch this week of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis after a   week's postponement due to a lightning strike and a storm.
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Scientists now have their first direct evidence of changing weather patterns on Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. When the Cassini spacecraft flew past the satellite on Monday it spied clouds at mid-latitudes
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By Alan M. MacRobert, Globe Correspondent | November 6, 2004. In this darkening season, lots of people start the day before sunrise.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Two sparkling new solar power wings were unfurled on the International Space Station on Tuesday, as ground control teams mapped plans to fix a tear in the heat protection system of visiting space shuttle Atlantis.
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SPACE.com / The first eight months of 2006 was the warmest in the continental United States since record-keeping began in 1895, NOAA officials said today.
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PASADENA, Calif. There could be something new under the sun next year -- the first controlled flight by a spaceship designed to run off solar wind.
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Noctilucent, no less A NASA satellite has captured its first images of noctilucent clouds, brightly lit night-time clouds that form high in Earth's atmosphere during each hemisphere's summer.â¦
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The International Heliophysical Year -- a year of scientific study involving space weather -- started Monday with a ceremony in Austria.  The ceremony at the U.N.
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The weather anomaly La Nina could  influence global weather patterns through the early part of  2008, according to the National Weather Service.
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Monday's flyby, the first visit in 33 years, is expected to render new images and data that can shed light on the origins of the solar system.