Sun Microsystems

'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets

Pic and video Gassy giants make Jupiter look like an absolute tiddler

Science23 Jul 2020 | 32

Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way

Getting to them is, however, quite another kettle of fish

Science17 Jun 2020 | 53

Raw sunlight is going to cause our asteroid belt to spin itself to death by YORPing – but not for another six billion years

The cosmic ballet goes on...

Science11 Feb 2020 | 24

Forget the Oscars, the Solar Orbiter is off to take a close look at our nearest (and super-hot) star

Sun, science and, er, more science

Science10 Feb 2020 | 16

In case you wanna launch your boss into the Sun, good news: Earth's largest solar telescope just checked and, yeah, it's still pretty fiery

Most detailed close-ups of our star are in – and get a load of these plasma bubbles the size of Texas

Science30 Jan 2020 | 50

Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed

That's way, way, way older than the dust off your oldest PC

Science14 Jan 2020 | 23

Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery

The Radcliffe is totally radical

Science09 Jan 2020 | 21

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

The case that just won't die

Software15 Nov 2019 | 87

Astroboffins capture video of Mercury passing across the Sun's surface

Not gonna happen again before 2032

Science12 Nov 2019 | 36

Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years'

Bad news: Might actually be 1,000 years. And not even that devastating

Science12 Jun 2019 | 72

Gaze in awe at the first ever movie of a solar eclipse from recording long thought lost forever

Video Sadly no HD video back in 1900 but restoration has worked wonders

Science31 May 2019 | 43

Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Science15 May 2019 | 60

Oracle splats 300 vulns in MySQL, Database, Fusion, etc, pours fresh brew of Java SE terms

Multiple pre-auth remote code exec holes need pasting over, enterprise IT giant warns

Databases16 Apr 2019 | 22

Plasma bubbles 500 times the size of earth, ultra-hot rain - let's face it, the Sun's not a place to hang out nearby

Long-dead Helios probes' data still opening up new science

Science06 Apr 2019 | 36

Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring

Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners

Science13 Mar 2019 | 32

Oldest white dwarf star catches amateur's eye – and its dusty ring leaves boffins baffled

Pic J0207 is estimated to be a mere three-billion years old and just 145 light years away

Science20 Feb 2019 | 17

FYI NASA just lobbed its Parker probe around the Sun in closest flyby yet: A nerve-racking 15M miles from the surface

FAB, Lady Penelope

Science08 Nov 2018 | 48

Thought Patch Tuesday was a load? You gotta check out this Oracle mega-advisory, then

And you'll definitely want to check out the libssh flaw

Databases16 Oct 2018 | 13

Fruit flies use the power of the sun to help them fly in straight lines

Winged critters can travel over 9 miles in a single evening

Science31 Aug 2018 | 33

The Solar System's oldest minerals reveal the Sun's violent past

Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets

Science31 Jul 2018 | 40

Alien sun has smashing time sucking up planets

First case of solar suckage

Science20 Jul 2018 | 21

The Sun will blow up into a huge, glowing bubble of gas during its death

New study shows the Sun will turn into a planetary nebula after all

Science07 May 2018 | 41

Terix boss thrown in the cooler for TWO years for peddling pirated Oracle firmware, code patches

Big Red all smiles after black-market support biz bosses jailed

On-Prem06 Apr 2018 | 36

Confirmed: Oracle laid off 964 people from former Sun building

WARN notice lists 1,008 layoffs in total

On-Prem12 Sep 2017 | 22

Oracle finally decides to stop prolonging the inevitable, begins hardware layoffs

Pink slips are en route, say staff

On-Prem31 Aug 2017 | 38

Sun's core in a real spin, but you wouldn't know just by looking at it

Gravity waves reveal our star rotates four times faster on the inside than the outside

Science03 Aug 2017 | 22

You wait ages for a sun, then two come along at once: All stars have twins, say astroboffins

So where is our Sol's sibling?

Science17 Jun 2017 | 69

Dark times for OmniOS – an Oracle-free open-source Solaris project

OmniTI calls time on Illumos-inspired operating system

Software25 Apr 2017 | 54

Our Sun's been using facial scrub: No spots for two weeks

Move along, nothing to see here, says NASA. It's just Sol cycling as usual

Science24 Mar 2017 | 41

Ten-trillionths of your suntan comes from intergalactic photons

But fear not – our galaxy has in-built SPF protection

Science12 Aug 2016 | 22

What's DriveScale up to? Mix-'n'-match server and disk storage, for starters

Backgrounder It's all about 'composable' infrastructure

Storage21 Jun 2016 | 2

Sic transit Mercury Monday

Planet nips across Sun's fiery face today

Science09 May 2016 | 26

Mercury to transit Sun: Viewer discretion advised

To avoid blindness, watch live with NASA

Science04 May 2016 | 21

Nearly two billion in the bank and yet this VC is slowly losing his beach-blocking battle

Vinod Khosla may be forced to provide public access

Bootnotes28 Apr 2016 | 40

Blocking out the Sun won't fix climate change – but it could buy us time

Refreeze the poles... giant magnifying glass... What shall we do?

Science23 Nov 2015 | 179

SOHO solar scope spies 3000th 'sungrazer' comet

Actually, Thai spotter extraordinaire Worachate Boonplod takes the honour

Science17 Sep 2015 | 7

Sun? In Blighty? Nah, just build that rooftop data centre, it’ll be fine

On-Call Aircon's down, servers frying … but COMPUTER SAYS 'NO'

On-Prem02 Aug 2015 | 60

Debian Project holds Sparc port's hand, switches off life support

No more support for bedridden Sun hardware going forward

OSes27 Jul 2015 | 20

YOW! Pluto STUNS boffins with HAZY, SHRINKY atmosphere

Pics and vid Probe spots nitrogen ice glaciers flowing into craters

Science25 Jul 2015 | 20

Rosetta spots potholes IN SPAAACE: Someone call the galactic council

Comet 67P is collapsing from within

Science01 Jul 2015 | 24

Bill Nye's bonkers LightSail spaceship unfurls solar sails at last

Pic Planetary Society splices the mainbrace after dodgy start

Science08 Jun 2015 | 31

Spaniard sues eBay over right to sell the Sun

Tat bazaar unimpressed with solar punt

Bootnotes05 Jun 2015 | 89

Call girl gets six years for Googler's drug death

Tichelman pleads guilty in heroin overdose killing

Bootnotes21 May 2015 | 19

Watch: FIRE-SPITTING time-lapse images of Sol showcase NASA's sun-gazing highs

Vid Grab your HOT solar filament action here!

Science14 Feb 2015 | 24

Five years of Sun software under Oracle: Were the critics right?

Oracle-Sun anniversary They said Java, MySQL and Solaris were all doomed

Channel28 Jan 2015 | 66

The firm that swallowed the Sun: Is Oracle happy as Larry with hardware and systems?

Oracle-Sun anniversary One swallow didn't make a summer

Systems27 Jan 2015 | 33

There's life after Oracle, but very little left in Oracle's reseller channel

Oracle-Sun anniversary Five years on, what did Larry's lot do to Sun's partner network?

On-Prem27 Jan 2015 | 4

NASA's 'crazy' plan yields dramatic pictures of our X-ray Sun

NuSTAR could solve the riddle of the flaming ice cube

Science23 Dec 2014 | 22

Kepler's STILL GOT IT! Space telescope spots SUPER-EARTH 180 light years away

Damaged 'scope still producing good science

Science20 Dec 2014 | 27

Aged star could give us clues to HOT TEEN's behaviour

Answers to solar system's creation held by flaming ball

Science12 Dec 2014 | 11

Done with Microsoft and Adobe patches? Good, here's Oracle's load

Java, Database, Fusion Middleware among recipients in latest update deluge

Databases15 Oct 2014 | 4

Hiss-hiss! GIGANTIC SOLAR FILAMENT snakes around Sun

Pic Burning beast is 100 times the size of Earth when unfurled

Science05 Oct 2014 | 48

That glass of water you just drank? It was OLDER than the SUN

One MEELLION years older. Some of it anyway

Science27 Sep 2014 | 78

Sun of a beach! Java biz founder loses battle to keep his shore private

Surfers win Martin's Beach battle against Vinod Khosla

Legal25 Sep 2014 | 57

Sleepy spotless summer Sun's shock solar storm surge stuns scientists

Vid Grab a digital cam to snap tonight's 'wimpy' X-class flare

Science12 Sep 2014 | 10

Sun's MASSIVE solar storm belch to light up Earth's skies

Video Watch experts chat about the effects on humanity

Science11 Sep 2014 | 41