The Sun is going through a period of high activity, but it is nothing compared to an enormous solar event that slammed into our planet 14,000 years ago.

The Sun is extremely active right now, blasting the Earth with the biggest solar storms in 20 years. This is what it is doing to the rest of the Solar System.

The sun's rays are carcinogenic – here's how to protect yourself properly, according to experts.

Millions of observers will watch next week's American solar eclipse from the ground. But a few lucky Nasa flight crews will get a much closer view.

Rockets, planes, balloons and countless observers on the ground will be studying the North American total solar eclipse on 8 April in unprecedented detail.

Every so often, an eclipse has changed the course of pivotal events – for better and worse.

In an influential cli-fi novel, a desperate government ignores international consensus and pumps aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the world. Could it happen for real?

During the American solar eclipses of October 2023 and April 2024, hundreds of radio amateurs will take to the airwaves - for science.