Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

We May Have Found the First Exomoon! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered what appears to be the first known moon outside of the solar system and new models of Europa’s surface predict the presence of ice blades!
Instructional Video2:42
MinutePhysics

How Perspective Shapes Reality

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about how the way we describe the world can influence the way we perceive it. In particular, with regards to Bohmian mechanics, Schrodinger wave functions, Feynman path integrals, and Galilean moons attached to Jupiter by...
Instructional Video17:47
TED Talks

TED: How to land on a comet | Fred Jansen

12th - Higher Ed
As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen was responsible for the successful 2014 landing of a probe on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this fascinating and funny talk, Jansen reveals some of the intricate...
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

New Evidence of Water on Jupiter! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve got some new evidence for water beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, and a new model of Jupiter’s weird magnetic field.
Instructional Video5:05
SciShow

Could Water Survive on the Closest Exoplanet?

12th - Higher Ed
Exoplanets are being discovered in the habitable zone to sustain life as we know it. Could water be found on the closest exoplanet to us?
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

How Plastic Balls and Garbage Cans Help Us Study Space

12th - Higher Ed
How can we be so sure of the way celestial bodies behave when they're so far away? With the help of some speakers, garbage cans, and springs of course.
Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Why Everyone Was Watching Tabby's Star Last Weekend

12th - Higher Ed
Tabby's star is at it again. Could it be aliens this time!? Also, astronomers have discovered a planet with the density of styrofoam!
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

We Detected Water Plumes on Europa... 20 Years Ago

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers found surprising new evidence hiding in data captured back in 1997, and we've discovered stars forming in a distant galaxy as early as 250 million years after the Big Bang.
Instructional Video9:33
PBS

Life on Europa?

12th - Higher Ed
The Hubble Telescope found more evidence of vast plumes of water bursting through the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. What does this tell us about the potential for life on Europa?
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

More New Earth-like Planets Nearby!

12th - Higher Ed
Between the new, potentially Earth-like planets, organic molecules on Ceres, and SpaceX's successful launch, it's been quite a week in space!
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There

12th - Higher Ed
Space Clue: 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia in the asteroid belt with evidence of being formed outside of it. But the real mystery is how they got there! And we again return to Ganymede with new evidence suggesting even more kinds of water...
Instructional Video9:37
PBS

Quantum Entanglement (The Bohr-Einstein Debate)

12th - Higher Ed
Albert Einstein strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr when it came to Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement settled the argument once and for all.
Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
Instructional Video5:31
SciShow

A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist.
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Most Common Planet in the Universe?

12th - Higher Ed
There’s one kind of planet we’ve found more often than any other in the universe so far: mini-Neptunes. Now, some scientists think they’ve figured out why there are just so many of them.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

We Might Be Wrong About Planet Formation

12th - Higher Ed
Though we’ve been able detect thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, we’ve now directly imaged an exoplanet that changes our whole perspective on how we think planets like Jupiter form!
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

New Jupiter Discoveries from the Juno Mission!

12th - Higher Ed
The Juno spacecraft has been making close flybys of Jupiter and its measurements have revealed some new things about Jupiter’s interior. And astronomers were surprised after putting together the most complete atmospheric profile that’s...
Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Brown Dwarfs Space’s Strangely Important Oddballs

12th - Higher Ed
You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the...
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow

Comet Chase & Molten Moons

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode of SciShow Space News, Hank details the work of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. He also explains the new discoveries of Jupiter's moon Io.
Instructional Video4:28
SciShow

Move Over, Mars We Could Farm on Asteroids!

12th - Higher Ed
When people live throughout the solar system, we'll need some way to feed them that doesn't involve constant shipments of Earth-grown food. Will the asteroid belt be our new cosmic food court?
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

This Amazing Mission Almost Failed After Launch

12th - Higher Ed
The ESA Hipparcos team worked for 20 years on the project, then had to watch as the mission ALMOST failed! But somehow, they turned it around, and today, this little-known mission has totally transformed what we know about space.
Instructional Video4:30
SciShow

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?