This video provides a detailed overview of the structure and location of our solar system, including the orbits of different celestial bodies and the gravitational forces that keep them in place. It also explores the location of our...

Mercury and Venus have no moons because of their close proximity to the Sun. Any moon orbiting around them is likely be swallowed by the mammoth gravitational pull of the mighty Sun. All planets except for Mercury and Venus have moons....

Students are taken on an exciting animated trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Images from NASA and the Hubble space Telescope illustrate the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter, Saturns' beautiful rings, the tilted rings of Uranus, and...

How big do you think our solar system is? Up until Pluto? A bit beyond? How big can other solar systems get?

Planetary orbits are elliptical because gravitational interaction over time changes the delicate balance of mass, velocity and distance from the star which otherwise keeps planetary orbit circular. For a very long time, from Ptolemy to...

Recent maps of the Moon's gravity have taught us a lot about its overall shape, and have been invaluable for lunar exploration. Maria Zuber, principal investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, reflects...

Extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, are planets that orbit stars other than our sun. Astronomers like Dr. William Welsh at San Diego State University primarily use two methods to detect these distant planets: Doppler and Transit...

The sounds of Saturn, or rather the radio and plasma waves that Cassini picked up in Saturn's orbit.

Asteroids, ho! Pioneering space miners dream of Psyche, the largest metal asteroid in the solar system.

The video explores the mysteries of high energy astronomy, focusing on gamma ray bursts and their origins. It discusses the evolution of our understanding of the universe, from debates about the scale of the galaxy to the discovery of...

The video explains the concepts of revolution and rotation in relation to celestial bodies. The video also provides information about the time it takes for the Earth and other planets to complete a revolution around the sun, as well as...

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Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about weathering.

Remember those old space movies where spaceships had to maneuver through a bunch of asteroids scattered around and blocking the path of the ship? Well, that's not really true. The asteroid belt contains asteroids which are so far apart...

In this video I cover research examples going on in terms of space exploration. Main topics covered include dark energy, dark matter, black holes, pulsars, neutron st

ars, and more.

Also note there is a...

With all the focus on the Coronavirus, it made me wonder how viruses would cope in space generally. This led on to other questions like "do we contaminate other worlds with Earth based life?" and "can alien bacteria and viruses thrive...

Olber's Paradox. With so many stars in the universe, why is space black and not white with light?

In their very first episode of "From A to B", Adrian asks Brit about the relationships between oxygen and life on Earth.

Physics Girl astrophysics series - Brown Dwarfs are among the most recently observed objects in the universe. They have at MOST 8% the mass of the Sun. The lower mass boundary is not known! So they are halfway between stars and gas giant...

Everything you could want to know about Saturn!

Dark Matter is one of the biggest mysteries of our universe. It makes up more than a quarter of our universe, but what is it? And how do we know it's there? Find out about dark matter in this video.

Originally aired on February 27, 2009, a conversation on the Kepler Mission with Principal Investigator William Borucki, Deputy Principal Investigator David Koch, and Kepler Science Council Member Alan Boss from the Carnegie Institute of...

Almost everything you could want to know about the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. Real HD photos and videos taken by the MESSENGER probe. We discuss the orbit, climate, geographical features, and general physical characteristics or...

The impact of comets on the surface of Jupiter are a fairly common experience. At the University of Central Florida, astronomers Joseph Harrington and Csaba Palotai are leading a project that studies precisely how these impacts happen,...