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A New Kind of Northern Light - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A glowing, purple ribbon of light named STEVE is weirder than we thought and we now have evidence that there is water ice on the moon!
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The First Time We Met a Comet, We Blew a Hole in It

12th - Higher Ed
In the first mission of its kind, Deep Impact’s goal was to teach us about the interior of comets...by blowing a hole in the side of one!
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What Movies Get Wrong About Space

12th - Higher Ed
Hollywood can be pretty negligent about physics and astronomy, even in really good movies, but there are a few specific misconceptions that pop up again and again.
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Space Station Science and NASA's Flying Saucer

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space shares the latest news from around the universe, including a wrap-up of the experiments conducted in the last space station mission, a test of a new "flying saucer" device from NASA, and new life for our old friend, the...
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Why Are Rockets Launched in Florida?

12th - Higher Ed
Out of all the locations NASA could have chosen in the U.S., why Florida?
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We Just Shot an Asteroid... for Science! Space News

12th - Higher Ed
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a bullet into an asteroid and Neptune officially has 14 moons!
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NASA's Plan to Capture an Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin Hofmeister walks you through NASA's planned Asteroid Retrieval Mission, which aims to capture a space-rock and put it in lunar orbit for study -- all by 2025!
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Our First-Ever Missions to Mars, and What We Learned From Them

12th - Higher Ed
A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!
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We Just Landed on the Far Side of the Moon for the First Time! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The new year is off to a great start for space exploration! New Horizons has passed the farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, and China put a lander on the dark side of the Moon!
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The First Results from NASA's InSight Lander! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We finally have some results from the InSight lander’s measurements on Mars, and the Japanese Space Agency is moving forward with a probe that will explore Mars’s moons.
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Future Space News of 2020

12th - Higher Ed
2020 is going to be an exciting year for space exploration, if everything goes according to plan. Humans are heading to space in new spacecraft, multiple Mars missions are on the horizon, and scientists are getting a new perspective on...
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TED: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech

12th - Higher Ed
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from...
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The Latest From Mars: Day 2

12th - Higher Ed
Hank briefs us on the current status of the Mars Science Laboratory, and gives us a taste of what we can hope to see coming from it in the next few months, and during the rest of its two year mission.
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Why We've Only Ever Seen the Sun's Poles Once

12th - Higher Ed
The Ulysses mission revolutionized our understanding of the sun, but it's been the only orbiter to take this kind of out-of-ecliptic journey. Will an upcoming mission give us even more?
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NASA Just Arrived at an Asteroid! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
OSIRIS-REx finally entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu this week and new research has found an old recipe for RNA.
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Bill Stone: Inside the world's deepest caves

12th - Higher Ed
Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Water on Ganymede, and NASA Needs Your Help!

12th - Higher Ed
Which is a bigger deal to you? The discovery that there's probably more water on Jupiter's moon Ganymede than all the oceans on Earth? Or the fact that you can now help NASA find asteroids? Learn about both, then decide for yourself!
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The Unsung Mission That Made Apollo Possible

12th - Higher Ed
Before we could set foot on the moon, the Surveyor missions were sent to give future astronauts some sure footing.
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Two Tragic Crashes

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News looks into two recent rocket failures over U.S. soil, exploring possible causes and sizing up the risks of spaceflight since humans first started reaching for the stars.
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The Mars Lander Crash: What Went Wrong?

12th - Higher Ed
Schiaparelli crashing into Mars wasn't exactly what the Exomars mission scientists were hoping for, but we're still going to get some useful information from the little probe's descent. And scientists have observed two of the brightest...
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Building a Base on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
If you've ever dreamed of living on Earth's Moon, we've got an episode for you!
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NASA Just Launched a New, Planet-Hunting Telescope!

12th - Higher Ed
From launching a new satellite, to finding diamonds from a lost world, researchers have been hard at work transforming how we think about our planet, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.
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Buzzed By a Weird Blue Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon got closer than it will be until 2093, and the reflecting light has astronomers puzzled, and the relationship between black holes and magnetic fields is now a little more clear.
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One-on-One Conversation with New Horizons Scientist

12th - Higher Ed
Hank interviews Dr. Alex Harrison Parker about New Horizons' Pluto flyby, what's next for the probe, and what we can anticipate learning about the solar system's history!