SciShow
We're About to Visit the Second Best Place for Life
This October, the launch window opens for NASA's Europa Clipper mission. When it arrives in the Jovian system, this spacecraft will probe the icy moon...and its ocean buried kilometers beneath the surface...for the ingredients of life as...
SciShow
The Moon That’s 2 Moons Stuck Together
In November 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh and made a startling discovery: not only does this small asteroid have an even smaller companion (named Selam), that companion is shaped like a two-tier snowman....
MinutePhysics
Which Planet Has the Best Eclipse?
Solar eclipses don't just happen here on earth - moons of other planets also pass between those planets and the sun, resulting in various types of solar eclipses on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and even non-planets like Pluto,...
MinutePhysics
How Do We Know What Air is Like on Other Planets?
How do we know what the air is like on planets we haven't visited? This video explains how to see air from 150 light years away. Thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project at the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting...
SciShow
The Rarest Objects in The Solar System Are from...Elsewhere...
In 2017, astronomers discovered 'Oumuamua — the first definitive interstellar visitor to our solar system. But definitive evidence of space rocks that don't just visit but join our solar system is a little more elusive.
SciShow
The Alien Storm That Ate Itself
From cyclones to snowstorms, Earth is home to some spectacular weather events. But they're nothing compared to what you can find on the other planets in our solar system. Magnetic tornadoes? Ammonia mushballs? Let's (not literally) dive...
SciShow
Life on an 8-Hour Planet
Even if we find an earth-sized exoplanet, how can we be so sure that we're looking at earth 2.0? It might come down to how fast it's spinning.
SciShow
Is Our Solar System Missing Moons?
You might be pretty confident that when a moon is there it’s there to stay, but that’s not always the case. Moons may have a history of disappearing.
SciShow
JWST: Looking Beyond The Pretty Pictures
The James Webb Space Telescope isn't just for finding Pinterest worthy pictures, we're finding some amazing details in the sometimes blurry background photos.
PBS
What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Our solar system is a tiny bubble of habitability suspended in a vast universe that mostly wants to kill us. In fact, a good fraction of our own galaxy turns out to be utterly uninhabitable, even for sun—like stellar systems. Is this why...
Be Smart
Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?
Earth has seasons, but what about the rest of the planets in the solar system? Let’s take a tour from Mercury to Pluto and see what seasons would be like on all our planetary neighbors. Bring a sweater!
PBS
Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
On July 4th 2016, the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around the planet Jupiter after leaving earth five years ago. The Juno probe will tell us what lies inside the mysterious gas giant and with this information we’ll better understand the...
SciShow
Most Planets Don't Orbit Stars!?
Hunting for rogue planets is like hunting for an invisible needle in a haystack. But we're getting a much clearer view thanks to gravitational microlensing surveys. And it looks like there are a LOT more of them out there than we thought.
SciShow
Why Are Saturn’s Rings Younger Than Saturn?
Saturn's rings are younger than Saturn, and the most spectacular sight in the Solar System is also disappearing. How do we know? By running our finger through some cosmic dust.
SciShow
3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure
3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure
SciShow
The 7 Coolest Active Space Probes
We’ve sent thousands of things into space over the years! Many of them just orbit the Earth, and some are flying out past the edges of the Solar System. In this episode, we present our favorite currently active space probes!
SciShow
Why Do the Planets Orbit in the Same Plane?
While there is a little wiggle room, the planets in our solar system really are orbiting on mostly the same level. Why do they do that?
SciShow Kids
Telescopes in Space! | How We Study Space | SciShow Kids
Anthony and Squeaks find out how you can put telescopes in different places to help you see further away and get better pictures of things in space!
Crash Course
Floods in the Ancient Near East: Crash Course World Mythology
This week on Crash Course mythology, Mike is talking to you about floods. You may have heard the story of Noah and the Ark from the Bible, but that is not the only deluge story humans tell. It's a common thing across culture. You could...
SciShow
How Wiretapping Helped Transform Astronomy
Early telegraph operators and WWI spies picked up some weird noises on radio waves. As it turned out, they were actually listening to plasma waves in Earth’s magnetic field lines!
SciShow
How Earth’s Tides Gave Us Life As We Know It
While astronomers are busy searching for life beyond Earth, they’ve also started asking another question: If life seems so difficult to find, then why is our world so full of it? One answer might be overhead right now: the Moon!