NASA
Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?
Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina...
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Do Our Ears Keep Clean?
This video is answering the question of how do our ears keep clean.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marilyn Nelson - 'Dinah's Lament'
Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a...
NASA
NASA’s InSight Lander Accomplishes Science Goals on Mars as Power Levels Diminish
NASA’s InSight lander touched down in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars in November of 2018. During its time on the Red Planet, InSight has achieved all its primary science goals and continues to hunt for quakes on Mars. The mission is...
Next Animation Studio
NASA says Asteroid Bennu now more likely to hit Earth
Scientists used new data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to make a more precise calculation of Bennu’s orbit.
NASA
NASA | Hubble & Exoplanets
Three astronomers in NASA Goddard's Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory discuss how Hubble's coronagraph and resulting images have helped scientists find planets orbiting distant stars.
NASA
NASA | Goddard's Innovation
For more than half a century, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been at the forefront of discovery, creating new instruments and managing high-profile missions that have expanded our understanding of the world around us. Perhaps...
NASA
5 New Discoveries from NASA's Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has returned unprecedented data from near the Sun, culminating in new discoveries published on Dec. 4, 2019, in the journal Nature. Among the findings are new understandings of how the Sun's constant...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is House Dust Made Of?
This video is answering the question of what is house dust made of.
Visual Learning Systems
Forces Shaping the Earth: Wind
Gravity and erosion are major factors in changing the shape of the surface of Earth. The different types of erosion, and the major types of mass movements caused by gravity are discussed in this video. Other terminology includes:...
NASA
NASA | Scientists Link Earlier Melting Of Snow To Dark Aerosols
Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the sun’s energy. But until recently, scientists rarely considered the effect of all three major types of light-absorbing...
NASA
NASA | Satellite Tracks Saharan Dust to Amazon in 3-D
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a...
NASA
Tour 2022: NASA's Upcoming Earth Missions
NASA has a unique view of our planet from space. NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites provide high quality data on different parts of Earth’s interconnected environment from air quality to sea ice. Take a tour of missions launching...
Practical Ninjas
PLC - Introduction | Programmable logic controllers | Steps towards Automation - 01
PLC stands for Programmable Logic Controller. It can be also called the backbone of any industry implementing automation in their processes. PLC is nothing but an embedded computer capable of implementing complex logic's involving...
NASA
NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 5/6)
In part 5, Dr. Garvin conveys the amazing past successes of robotic explorations on Mars and what we have to look forward to with the upcoming Mars Science Lab, also known as the Curiosity rover. (Show Description) Chief Scientist of...
NASA
NASA | Making Saharan Air Apparent
NASA's Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) instrument, flying aboard an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in this summer's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission, is studying the changing profile of the atmosphere in detail to learn more...
Astrum
Galaxies Don't Spin The Way You Think
Galaxies are not spinning tops. So how do stars move within them?
NASA
NASA | CATS Up and Running on the ISS
On January 22, 2015, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) was installed on the International Space Station. The team monitored the progress of the installation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where CATS was designed and...
Poetry Foundation
Eloisa Amezcua reads "Teaching My Mother English over the Phone"
Eloisa Amezcua shares her poem "Teaching My Mother English over the Phone
Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Does It Smell Nice When It Rains?
This video is answering the question of why does it smell nice when it rains.
NASA
Warmer Ocean Temperatures May Decrease Saharan Dust Crossing the Atlantic
Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as the Amazon...
NASA
ATom Postcard - Azore Islands to Kangerlussuaq
Atmospheric scientists Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of Vienna, Paul Newman of Goddard Space Flight Center, and Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the last three legs of the Atmospheric...
NASA
NASA | Spiral Arms Point to Possible Planets in a Star's Dusty Disk
Simulations of young stellar systems suggest that planets embedded in a circumstellar disk can produce many distinctive structures, including rings, gaps and spiral arms. This video compares computer simulations of hypothetical systems...
NASA
Students Work with NASA to Forecast Dust Storms
Four Maryland high school students were inspired by a documentary to find a way to let people know when a potentially hazardous dust storm is incoming. Using National Weather Service forecasts improved by NASA data, their Dust Watch app...