A Huge Sunspot Appears
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With the Lakers trading for Pau Gasol and the Spurs still plodding along, the high-octane Phoenix Suns have chosen to refuel with Shaquille O'Neal.
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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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Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island.
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Sunspot 981, come on down Scientists are poised to confirm that a "modest knot" of high-latitude, reversed-polarity magnetism spotted last December on the Sun has become a full-blown sunspot heralding the beginning of Solar Cycle 24:â¦
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By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press writer  HOUSTON  NASA unfurled the international space station's new solar wings for the first time Thursday in what looked like the stretching of a giant accordion in orbit.  "Big day for space station.
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At a pivotal moment of the solar cycle, the NASA/ESA Ulysses spacecraft is flying over the sun's mysterious North Pole.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Sep.
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A novel solar technology hits an important milestone as it competes with other forms of solar power plants.
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Squashed, fast and cool Scientists have taken the first ever pictures of the surface of an alien Sol-like sun.â¦
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A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever constructed, capable of peering far deeper into the universe Â and further back in time Â than ever before.
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Scientists have high hopes for a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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Last week in Boulder, Colorado, scientists converged on the &quot;Living With A Star&quot; workshop to share the latest research in solar physics. At one point,  nearly 200 participants sat slack-jawed as they watched a new movie recorded by Japan's Hinode spacecraft showing a sunspot emerging from the depths of the sun.
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Hurricane Ivan&#39;s massiveness can be seen in this view of the storm from the international space station. The photograph was made Saturday when Ivan was over the Caribbean.
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Relatively calm weather was the standard forecast for the  Sun, which is near the end of another 11-year solar  cycle, but raging solar storms just spotted at its south pole now tell a  different story.    Video: Sun Storms
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An embryonic star, just beginning its life as the center of a planetary system, is apparently deluged with massive rainfall as icy material vaporizes and refreezes. Astronomers are observing one such star in a nebula about 1,000 light years from Earth with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Â· South African find is twice as big as the Cullinan Â· Expert predicts feverish bidding on huge stone
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Now hereÂs something that just happened to catch our eye.