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.

A team of astronomers has detected signs of a black hole with a mass of 100,000 times that of our Sun around the center of the Milky Way. This would be the second largest black hole in the galaxy.

Even though Pluto was discovered 86 years ago, we knew very little about the dwarf planet until NASA's New Horizons mission.

NASA just announced that in 2018, a small space probe will journey to a distant asteroid, venturing beyond Earth’s orbit and propelled entirely by sunlight.

In a new article published last month, scientists have revealed that the moon's gravity can reduce the amount of rainfall on Earth.

A recently published study indicates that more women with higher oestradiol levels (which occurs at the beginning of their menstrual cycle) find other ovulating women more likely to ‘entice their date’ than women with lower oestradiol levels.

A recent study published in Nature revealed the brain circuit that controls sighing, showing that it is more than just an emotional cue, but also a life-saving reflex.

Babylonians used Geometry to Track Jupiter’s Movements - Astronomers discovered how to calculate Jupiter’s position with geometry between 350 and 50 BC, 1400 years before the Europeans did.

NASA recently captured imagery of water ice hills on Pluto ‘floating’ in a sea of frozen nitrogen and moving over time like icebergs. These nitrogen glaciers measure one to several miles across.

Scott Kelly’s mission doesn’t end when he lands back on Earth. Kelly and his twin brother will be observed for two years to see how space impacts a person’s health.

You’ll never look at a cotton candy machine the same way ever again!

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has allowed animators to bring some of the most prominent geological structures on the dwarf planet Ceres to life. The animation shows some of its most prominent craters including Occator, and its large, conical mountains.

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.