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Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why "dark matter" is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team's loss.

Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness. 

When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.

It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.

A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

You might think it's impossible to run out of wind, but Europe's "wind drought" proves otherwise. And it's only going to get worse.

When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein's famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.

Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.

If light can't be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can't), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?

This company uses thousands of mirrors, AI, and machine learning to unlock the power of the sun.

Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science's biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?

It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.

If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

Despite the Sun's high core temperatures, particles can't quite overcome their mutual electric repulsion. Good thing for quantum physics!

Here on Earth, the Sun is our primary source of light, heat, and energy. But it also poses a grave threat to human civilization.

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America's vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won't be easy.

Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli's rule, our Universe wouldn't exist.

Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That's the best thing that ever happened to us.

“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”

Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.

Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.

Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

A "bio-battery" made from genetically engineered bacteria could store excess renewable energy and release it as needed.

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren't the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don't live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here's how.

Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?