Instructional Video3:58
SciShow

The Next ISS Experiments, and Pluto's Weird Methane Mountains

12th - Higher Ed
A new crew is headed to the ISS, and Pluto seems to have methane snow.
Instructional Video5:42
SciShow

Mama, Where Do Galaxies Come From?

12th - Higher Ed
For most of human history, we didn't know that galaxies were a thing. So over the past century, astronomers have been working to understand how galaxies come to be and how they evolve over time. And for a full decade, there was one...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

Three New Exoplanets Close to Home

12th - Higher Ed
TESS found 3 new exoplanets around a strangely calm m-dwarf star, and it's possible they could be habitable!
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

The First Neutron Star Collision We've Ever Seen

12th - Higher Ed
The results are in from the neutron star collision this past August! Astronomers are revealing what they've learned so far, with more pure gold research underway!
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

The Wow! Signal

12th - Higher Ed
Deep in an archive in Columbus, Ohio, there's a slip of paper with a bunch of random-looking letters and numbers printed on it called the âWow' signal.
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

A New Way to Find Planets!

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time, astronomers have detected the light coming from an exoplanet. SciShow Space News explains how they did it, and why it was so difficult in the first place.
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

3 Ways Exoplanets Rocked Planetary Science

12th - Higher Ed
Exoplanets have taught us a lot more about planets than our solar system could ever teach us, from what happens when they’re born, to what happens when their stars die.
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

The Biggest-Ever Supernova

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has chosen three companies whose craft it will use to ship cargo to the ISS and we've got new details about the brightest supernova we've ever observed.
Instructional Video5:09
Crash Course Kids

Glow On

3rd - 8th
So, have you ever wondered why some stars are brighter than others? You might think it's because they're closer to us, but that's not the whole story? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats about how stars glow and how...
Instructional Video3:09
SciShow

An Asteroid Flyby, and Good Morning, New Horizons!

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow Space News we bring you the latest on what to expect from NASA's New Horizons deep space mission and what asteroids to watch for in the coming years!
Instructional Video4:43
SciShow

The Hottest Exoplanets in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
With exoplanets, often we want to know if they are Earth-like and whether they might host life, but we can also learn a lot from planets that are nothing like Earth.
Instructional Video3:51
SciShow

How Do We Know What the Milky Way Looks Like?

12th - Higher Ed
How do we know what the Milky Way looks like if we've never been outside of it?
Instructional Video4:55
SciShow

Neutron Stars Just Keep Getting Weirder

12th - Higher Ed
Neutron stars are some of the strangest things in the universe, but are they the source of the mysterious Fast Radio Bursts? Or is it aliens? Spoilers: probably not aliens.
Instructional Video10:55
Crash Course

Brown Dwarfs

12th - Higher Ed
While Jupiter is nowhere near massive enough to initiate fusion in its core, there are even more massive objects out there that fall just short of that achievement as well called brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, have a mass that places them...
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

Why Is Pluto Not A Planet?

12th - Higher Ed
Pluto's not a planet. We're sorry, but we think it's time you move on. If you've gone through all your breakup music and Meg Ryan movies, and you still can't get over it, then SciShow Space will get out the ice cream, cuddle up with you...
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

3 of the Universe’s Most Extreme Galaxies

12th - Higher Ed
With so many galaxies in the universe, some are bound to astound us. Here are three of the most extreme galaxies scientists have discovered so far.
Instructional Video4:27
SciShow

3 Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist

12th - Higher Ed
The universe is a big place full of galaxies that we've only begun to study. SciShow Space presents 3 of the strangest ones we've found so far.
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

Triton: The Celestial 'Cantaloupe'

12th - Higher Ed
Join SciShow Space as we explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton. It's kind of a weird place and may even have liquid water!
Instructional Video11:10
Crash Course

Distances

12th - Higher Ed
How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth, and from that the...
Instructional Video5:09
SciShow

The Milky Way Broke Its Arm

12th - Higher Ed
The spiral of the Milky Way is not as smooth as we once thought because an arm not so far from home appears to be broken! And we may have discovered the answer to why a local asteroid puts on the appearance of a comet.
Instructional Video4:21
Curated Video

Exploring Uranus and Neptune

12th - Higher Ed
Join SciShow Space as we complete our tour of the Solar System planets with the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.
Instructional Video3:09
SciShow

The Asteroid Belt: Not What You Think!

12th - Higher Ed
Buckle up for a trip to the asteroid belt -- though it's not nearly as dangerous out there as you might think. But there's a LOT waiting to be discovered, including some crucial clues about the formation of the solar system itself.
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

Is the Universe Expanding?

12th - Higher Ed
Is the universe expanding? About a hundred years ago astronomers made a discovery that helped us unravel the mystery of the history of the universe!
Instructional Video3:02
SciShow

Oceans on Saturn's Moon Enceladus!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a huge ocean under the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. But how? And what does it really mean? Hank lays out the data -- straight from space to your brain!