Consider This Research For Your Science Fiction Stories Set In Outer Space

These two links may help with your hard science research for your science fiction stories set in outer space, especially if it involves interstellar travel:

Atomic Rockets

The Physics Of Space Battles

Yeah, nothing about "tesseracts", "the spice must flow", or "hyper/warp drives", but did you ever wonder why whenever something blows up in space in the movies, there's a huge roar, and then you realize there's no air in space for sound to travel? 

But is this really an "Oops" moment? The roar sounds good, doesn't it? It just doesn't have the same impact if there's no sound to go with the light show. :D