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High-definition images of sunspots on the sun's surface show the dark spots dotted with tiny pinpricks of light called umbral dots.

A Senate bill gets bipartisan support in order to boost research and development of science in the U.S. to keep in competition with China. GOP senators still worry about the funding of the bill.

"It's an exciting time to be a solar physicist," said Valentin Pillet, director of the National Solar Observatory.

The flu virus is highly changeable, which is why a shot from one year won't work the next.

Scientists hope to insert the device into clothes.

The study is the latest to find that climate change is bad news for penguins.

Scientists predict current solar cycle will come to an end in the first six months of 2020.

Scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the image at news conferences across the globe.

In 2017 scientists created an Earth-sized virtual telescope and used it to take a "picture" of a black hole.

Press conferences will be held across the globe on April 10.

The bill, which takes aim at "wasteful spending," is targeting a specific study of communications between congressional offices.

The two-month expedition will drill into the seafloor to find out more about the submerged "continent."

The ALMA system of antennas has high-resolution capabilities that produced an image of a star with planet-forming rings roughly 450 light-years from the Earth, like "a penny as seen from more than 110 kilometers away."