A Giant Trilobite on 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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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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A new extra-solar planet has been identified orbiting a star 500 light years from our solar system. The discovery was made by a team using a four-inch diameter telescope to make their observations - a size
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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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By Joyce Owen, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb.
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The Newtlite is designed to bathe the dark sea in a vivid daytime glow while withstanding the crushing pressure of ultradeep water.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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One pole of the sun is cooler than the other. That's the surprising conclusion announced today by scientists who have been analyzing data from the ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft.
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The Sun may have captured thousands or even millions of asteroids from another planetary system during an encounter more than four billion years ago, astronomers are reporting.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN   Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies.
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Astronomers  have spotted a planet that has survived the massive ballooning of its parent  star, providing the first optimistic evidence for the long-term survival of  Earth.
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The giant Toutatis asteroid passes by the Earth on Wednesday at distance of less than 1.6 million km.
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The first hard evidence of water outside our solar system is found on a new giant gas planet.
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Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is about to welcome a robotic visitor.
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the sun is hot, so harvest the heat to make ice cubes.
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A University of Colorado study has embarked on demonstrating that new planets can be found with the help of an orbiting starshade. The method has been compared to building a giant pinhole camera in space.
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A giant asteroid will make a close brush by Earth Wednesday -- at least close by asteroid standards. The 4.6-kilometre-long Toutatis will come within 1.5 million kilometres of Earth.