Who says physicists aren't funny? Stephen Hawking cracks some hilarious atomic jokes.

Who says physicists aren't funny? Stephen Hawking cracks some hilarious space jokes.

The sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface, and scientists may have figured out why. A NASA spacecraft found evidence of “heat bombs” collectively heating up the atmosphere.

The Dark Side of the Sun premieres February 12th on Science Channel.

In 2018 the Solar Probe Plus launches. It will orbit 4 million miles above the sun.

The sun is an amazing celestial object. Here are some amazing facts about the sun you may not know about!

Sometime’s the Sun’s magnetic field becomes unstable and creates sun spots.

Happy Pi Day!

Solar wind is a constant emission from the Sun that sweeps out into the Solar System. It’s made of particles and plasma.

The Sun’s Coronal Mass Ejections not only reach Earth, but should also cat us a lot of money.

Like Earth, space experiences dynamic, powerful weather.

A look at the upcoming missions that will take space exploration to new heights!

Medical progress came in many forms this year, from nanotechnology and bio printing organs leading the charge to the first successful human trials for CRISPR.

From reusable rockets to robotics, engineers began shaping a future in 2016 that most of us cannot yet dream of.

2016 saw technology changing the way we interact with our world with new innovations like autonomous vehicles and virtual reality.

A look back at two of the biggest news headlines from 2016: Gravitational waves and Proxima b.

Harvard scientists have invented an artificial leaf that quickly and efficiently converts solar energy to fuel.

A team of astronomers in Chile have seen something new and strange: cold gas pouring into a black hole.

A Japanese Twitter user discovered a novel way to stop his laptop from overheating: stacks of copper coins.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope just detected the youngest exoplanet to date estimated to be 5 to 10 million years old.

Did you know half your brain actually stays awake when you sleep and even responds to external stimuli?

Five years ago, NASA launched its solar-powered spacecraft, Juno, on a mission to Jupiter. That mission comes to a close and an all-new chapter begins with Juno's arrival and orbit of Jupiter.

Venus' waterless atmosphere may have been sucked dry by a strong electric wind.

The Challenger Disaster, Science Channel's first feature film starring William Hurt, premieres Saturday, Nov. 16 @ 9PM e/p. It chronicles Feynman's efforts on the Presidential Commission to uncover the cause of the devastating 1986 Challenger exp ...

The boosters are 17 stories tall! They will help launch humans to Mars and deep space in the future.

Cleaning up oil spills is next to impossible but those tides could start to change.

California's San Andreas fault line is locked, loaded and ready to roll, according to a leading seismologist in Southern California.

A team of scientists out of Boston is one step closer to finding a Zika vaccine.

Researchers from Brown University have just discovered geographical features suggesting a subsurface ocean exists beneath Pluto's icy shell.

British researchers have discovered a huge reserve of helium in Tanzania near the country's volcanoes.

For the first time this century, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught sight of a dark vortex on Neptune.

Don't flip out! Science Stack Week starts December 23rd on Science.