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.

Cancer drugs are often derived from plants, many of which are endangered and make treatment methods hard to guarantee.

NASA just installed the first expandable structure on the International Space Station's Tranquility module.

The diminutive disk of Mercury spent about seven and a half hours crossing in front of the Sun. This event happens roughly thirteen times per century.

In an epic announcement, NASA revealed that its Kepler Spacecraft had discovered 1,284 exoplanets. That's the most exoplanets announced at one time!

A team of Swedish and Norwegian researchers have created a way to show parents what their newborn sees when it first looks at them.

In a spectacular discovery, a team of scientists came across a 600-mile long coral reef located at the mouth of the Amazon River, all hidden under muddy waters.

A solar powered plane completed a 2.5 day flight across the Pacific, traveling from Hawaii to California without fuel.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has just spotted a small moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf plane in the Kuiper Belt.

With images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Space Agency just released a 3D video of the colorful Bubble Nebula, a circular cloud of gas 8,000 light years from Earth.

Scientists discovered a supermassive black hole formed from three spiral galaxies colliding into one another around 1.8 billion light-years away from Earth.

Archaeologists in Taiwan have just unearthed a 5,000-year-old fossil of a mother cradling a child.

In a recent study nearly 600,000 healthy individuals were tested for genetic mutations that lead to severe childhood diseases but surprisingly, 13 participants tested positive but did not show signs of the associated disorders.

Scientists have identified three close exoplanets that could support life. The planets are a mere 40 light years away from Earth, orbiting a dim star.

Hyperloop One, a California-based company building a high speed transportation system, is one step closer to a full system test.

Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands studied microscopic organisms in 1,100 individuals and found that coffee, tea and wine were associated with a healthier gut.

Researchers at the University of Wollongong in Australia have uncovered fossilized bones in Indonesia suggesting a species of early humans disappeared 50,000 years ago.