The Sun

Will a suntan protect me from the Sun? © Getty Images

Will a suntan protect me from the Sun?

A solar exploration: humans' unique relationship with the Sun © Science and Industry Museum

A solar exploration: humans’ unique relationship with the Sun

Mission into the Sun © Andy Potts

How the Parker Solar Probe will ‘touch the Sun’

Could a solar storm take down the internet? © Dan Bright

Everyday science

Could a solar storm take down the internet?

What if the Earth’s magnetic field died? – Jim Al-Khalili © Getty Images

Jim Al-Khalili What if the Earth’s magnetic field died?

Does the Sun make a sound? © Getty

Does the Sun make a sound?

Monument of great astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus made by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822, Warsaw, Poland © Getty Images

Who first claimed planets go round the Sun?

4.5-billion-year-old hibonite crystals have shed new light on the earliest days of the Solar System © Field Museum/NASA/ESA/University of Chicago

Crystals trapped in meteorites reveal the Sun’s violent past

Why doesn't the Sun fuse all its hydrogen at once and explode like an H-bomb? © Getty Images

Why doesn’t the Sun fuse all its hydrogen at once and explode like an H-bomb?

The experiments making us feel better about our future

The experiments making us feel better about our future

Who really discovered sunspots? © Getty Images

Who really discovered sunspots?

The sky was bright orange across much of the UK on 16 October 2017 © Rob Ball/Getty

Why does the sky change colour on the brink of a hurricane?

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Is the dark really making me sad?

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Some of the best pictures from Solar Eclipse 2017

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Our favourite tweets from the 2017 solar eclipse