We discuss Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel Fresco. It's fun to think the artist was capable of creating an anatomically accurate human brain in the painting, but more fun to discuss Neoplatonism.

Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun....

Nebulae are some of the most resplendent objects in the universe, but it’s easy to confuse which one is an “emission nebula,” and which one is an “absorption nebula.”
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Stars are much bigger and complex than they look from Earth. Learn how they form and how they are classified.

This video is answering the question of what are the different parts of a comet.

In this video we'll discuss how some of the accidental scientific discoveries have been made. So essentially, scientists are very curious people that want to find out how the world works, they are always asking questions. Sometimes they...

This video explores five fun facts about skin.

This video explores five fun facts about tornadoes.

Scientists believe that the solar system took billions of years to develop! This video gives an overview of solar system basics - its beginnings, gravity, planets orbits.

This video provides a comprehensive overview of storms, explaining their definition, potential effects, measurement on the Beaufort scale, and different types. Learn about snowstorms, tropical cyclones, windstorms, and more. Understand...

Once you’ve gotten the hang of basic black holes, you might want to search for some fancier ones. That’s great! But, before you do, refer to this convenient chapter to learn just how fancy some black holes can...

In this video we'll learn about how human activity has a negative impact on the Earth because of burning fossil fuels, deforestation and creating waste.

This live-action video program is about the word Comet. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Comet through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. K2 came from the distant Oort Cloud and is visiting our inner solar system for the first (and only) time. Since we're seeing it so far...

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a...

This video explores five fun facts about ears.

Some of the most amazing scientific discoveries happened by pure chance. Pretty crazy right?

How many moons does Saturn have? How many rings does Saturn have? What are the rings made of? Saturn, Lord of the rings, Part 2

Asteroids, comets, and meteors: what's the difference? These space rocks each have their own unique attributes. But differences aside, these fascinating objects are all worthy of study. Just ask @NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

A fully produced video about planetary evolution and how the Webb Telelscope's ability to see inside dense clouds of gas and dust will help us better understand solar system formation and evolution. <b<b<br/>r/>r/>

A comet's journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. Before it reaches Mars - at some 230 million miles away from the sun - the radiation of the sun begins to cook off the frozen water ice directly into gas. This...

Are there rainbows on Mars? Sadly, no. But there are a whole lot of other conditions on Mars that we have right here on Earth! NASA scientist Mark Lemmon explains why the Red Planet is a rainbowless world. Get more Martian science:...

Nebulae get their name from the Latin word for cloud, but they're very different than the clouds we see on Earth. Learn what causes these space clouds and about different types of nebulae.

This video is about the lifecycle of a star but did you know that each star starts from a cloud of dust and hydrogen gas?