or The Simpsons’ Mr Burns constructing a giant metal disk to block out the sun over Springfield, forcing its residents to consume more electricity from his power plant. The early warning system ...

Using technology to block out the Sun sounds like the script of a movie, but now scientists plan to do it for real. It's not a dastardly plot by a super-villain, experts hope it'll help them to ...

The next day, McCarthy faced the media in Frisco under similar blinding conditions, and the staff had to quickly set up a ...

The view of the Finger Lakes region in Central New York from a near space weather balloon - Matt Champlin/Moment RF US government scientists are building a warning system to detect super villain ...