#Sun

Four different ways you can enjoy a solar eclipse

Deep Dive

The kind of solar eclipses usually portrayed in films are total solar eclipses – a reasonably rare event. They’re likely what you think about when you hear the word eclipse. A total eclipse is when the Moon and the Sun line up in the sky in such a...

330,000 miles per hour – The Parker Solar Probe becomes fastest object ever built

Quick Read

NASA 'Parker Solar Probe' has become the fastest object ever built - the probe clocked 330,000 miles per hour as it completed a fly-by and 'touched the sun'. The US space agency has confirmed that in April the Parker Solar Probe crushed two existing space records ... that...

Solar scientist Lucie Green launches kids Summer of STEM challenge

Long Read

Space scientist and broadcaster, Professor Lucie Green has teamed up with Born to Engineer favourite STEM Learning to launch a range of science, technology, engineering and maths challenges to keep young brains and bodies active over the summer. Professor Green, a professor of physics in the Department...