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.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after spending 340 days on the International Space Station.

Thanks to the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, we can now see nearly 300 galaxies normally hidden by stars and dust, 250 million light years away.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on March 4th successfully deployed an SESsatellite, but failed to land properly.

UC Berkeley seismologists just released an app that can detect magnitude 5 earthquakes up to 6.2 miles away. The software differentiates real tremors from everyday motion, with 93 percent accuracy.

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. And to boldly go where no man has gone before, physicist Philip Lubin has outlined a way to propel spacecraft using photon propulsion instead of NASA’s current chemical propulsion.

Researchers in Belgium examined the immune systems of 670 people and found a 50% decrease in variation among couples living together compared to randomly paired individuals.

Thanks to the hyper-sensitive camera on the CFH Telescope in Hawaii, French astronomers have discovered an enormous plume of gas tailing a galaxy in the Virgo Cluster.

Mathematicians recognized the importance of Pi long before we could work the number into modern-day formulas.

The ExoMars probe, a joint project between Europe and Russia, is on its way to Mars. It's objective is to find any evidence of life on the red planet. If everything goes as planned, the probe should reach Mars by October 2016.

NASA officials just introduced the design for a supersonic passenger jet without the disruptive boom associated with supersonic flight.

Now that astronaut Scott Kelly is back on earth, scientists are studying how all that time altered his body.

NASA released a spectacular image of a large dying WR star and its blue bubble nebula. The WR star is 30,000 light-years from Earth and is at least 20 times the mass of the Sun.

Researchers found the first gene associated with gray hair. After studying the genomes of more than 6,600 people from Latin America, the research team were able to identify the genes linked to different hair qualities, including graying.

In Indonesia, scientists captured the only total eclipse of 2016. Other than looking very cool, solar eclipses actually allow us to see the outer region of the Sun's atmosphere, helping scientists understand the rare astronomical phenomena.

A set of comets recently flew by Earth. The closest was 2.2 million miles away from our planet's surface. NASA believes it will be 150 years before another comet flies within this proximity.

A Harvard study revealed that most people are not aware of harboring a gender bias. The study found that teenage girls preferred male political leaders and that men receive more credit for their professional work than women.