Instructional Video4:22
SciShow

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!
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

The Weirdness of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

12th - Higher Ed
It's Jupiter's beauty mark - but do you know where the Great Red Spot came from, or how long it's been there, or how long it'll continue to exist? Well, neither do scientists, really.
Instructional Video3:43
MinutePhysics

Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter's moon Europa - they're ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed...
Instructional Video5:05
SciShow

3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist

12th - Higher Ed
We explore several exoplanets whose features make us think they shouldn't even have been able to form in the first place!
Instructional Video5:45
SciShow

3 Ways We Know What the Ancient Solar System Was Like

12th - Higher Ed
The New Horizons spacecraft has given us lots of clues about the early days of our solar system, but we don't always have to travel billions of kilometers to peer into our past.
Instructional Video5:20
SciShow

On This Planet, the Floor Is Actually Lava | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We have new insights into the bizarre nature of lava planets, and the icy moon Europa may yet reveal some of her salty secrets.
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

How Saturn's Moons Could Help Us Live in Space

12th - Higher Ed
As we continue our search for life out in the universe, it's important that we leave no stone, or moon, unturned.
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

The JWST Pictures You Haven’t Seen Yet

12th - Higher Ed
The James Webb Space Telescope released its first official batch of photos to the public, but they weren't the first images the telescope captured since they had taken a bunch while testing the cameras. Let's talk about some of those...
Instructional Video5:00
SciShow

The Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2022 | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
2022 is looking like a great year for space exploration! Let's dig into three of the missions that we're really excited to watch unfold!
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

Why These Two Planets SHOULD Be the Same

12th - Higher Ed
You'd think that two planets with similar stats, orbits, and parent stars would grow up to be pretty similar, but these twins have atmospheres that beg to differ.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

Pioneer 10: Our First View into Outer Planets

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1970's, no vehicle had gone beyond the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, that is until Pioneer 10.
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

Two New NASA Missions!

12th - Higher Ed
With two new missions set by NASA, we hope to learn so much more of the asteroids surrounding Jupiter's orbit and the origin of our moon!
Instructional Video2:53
SciShow

3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Instructional Video3:23
SciShow

Mission to Europa Unveiled!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has announced the scientific instruments for the Europa Clipper mission, and Cassini has passed Hyperion, the so-called “spongy moon,” for the last time.
Instructional Video11:55
TED Talks

TED: Why earth may someday look like Mars | Anjali Tripathi

12th - Higher Ed
every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 7 pounds of helium escape from earth's atmosphere into outer space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the phenomenon of atmospheric escape, and in this fascinating and accessible talk,...
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

Future Space News of 2016

12th - Higher Ed
Hank Green brings in 2016 with some space missions to look forward to!
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Landing on Europa!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has proposed a mission that would land on Europa to search for signs of life & we've learned something sad about one of our neighbors, Proxima b.
Instructional Video4:29
SciShow

What Happened to the Juno Spacecraft?

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is a trooper as it continues its 2-year-long mission.
Instructional Video3:31
SciShow

Europa

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us four incredible things about Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa.
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow

The Planets with Inside-Out Weather

12th - Higher Ed
Way out in the solar system, the heat of the Sun drops off dramatically, so the gas giants get just a tiny percent of the solar radiation that reaches Earth. Instead, their weather is fueled from the inside out!
Instructional Video11:22
Crash Course

Asteroids

12th - Higher Ed
Now that we’ve finished our tour of the planets, we’re headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of smallish planets but were destroyed after collisions. Most orbit the Sun between...
Instructional Video28:02
SciShow

5 Unusual Places to Look for Life | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
From "superhabitable planets" that can potentially sustain life longer than earth to rogue planets that don't even orbit a star, we’ve talked about some strange places that could host extraterrestrial life over the last few years. Here...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

Mind the (Solar System's) Gap

12th - Higher Ed
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not...
Instructional Video6:03
SciShow

Meet the Milky Way's Last Big Meal: The Sausage Galaxy

12th - Higher Ed
Our Milky Way Galaxy once dined on the Sausage Galaxy, and Jupiter's auroras seem to be heavily influenced by one of its moons. It's a galaxy-eat-galaxy kind of universe out there!