Instructional Video9:25
SciShow

Can an Equation Really Tell Us How Many Aliens Exist?

12th - Higher Ed
In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake wrote down what is now known as the Drake Equation. It's so important to the culture surrounding the search for extraterrestrial life that scientists have carved it into the upcoming Europa Clipper...
Instructional Video6:28
SciShow

Is Our Solar System Missing Moons?

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video6:46
SciShow

Why Aliens Might Love Their Frozen Home

12th - Higher Ed
In the hunt for life beyond Earth, scientists shouldn't skip over frozen planets. In some cases, ice might actually help life evolve!
Instructional Video3:44
SciShow

Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
Instructional Video26:59
TED Talks

TED: The marvels and mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake

12th - Higher Ed
From favorite moons to the search for alien life, astronomer Heidi Hammel discusses the latest in astronomy and the breakthrough innovations behind her work with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. In conversation with science journalist...
News Clip2:27
Curated Video

Chancellor-designate outlines coalition plans

Higher Ed
1. Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel arriving 2. Designated vice chancellor and labour minister Franz Muentefering walking with Merkel, and leader of the CSU Edmund Stoiber 3. Wide shot news conference 4. Ministers at desk 5. SOUNDBITE...
News Clip3:40
Curated Video

Authorities unable to remove pre-war gravestone with swastika

Higher Ed
The marble tombstone looks like others dotting the main cemetery of Graz, Austria's second city - but only at first glance. Carved into it are a swastika and the inscription: "He died in the struggle for a Great Germany." Footsteps away,...
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

3 New Discoveries in Space

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares three cool discoveries in space science, including a celestial crucible of phosphorous, noble gases found in a supernova, and plumes of water vapor on Europa.
Instructional Video7:27
SciShow

The Evolution of Male Homosexuality

12th - Higher Ed
Hank goes from space to sex and then to motherhood, covering the SpaceX launch, a mission to the moons of Jupiter, intersexual workplace rivalries, the evolution of male homosexuality, the fossil evidence of squishy baby skulls, toddler...
Instructional Video4:02
SciShow

Ancient Lake in Antarctica Reached!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gets to the bottom of an exciting, and kinda weird, announcement from Russian scientists at the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica. Have they reached a 20-million-year old underground lake? Maybe! Is there a hoard of Nazi secrets...
Instructional Video3:09
SciShow

Io's Underground Magma Ocean

12th - Higher Ed
There are a few theories that would suggest Jupiter's moon IO has an underground magma ocean. Hank Green explains in this episode of SciShow Space!
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

Israel Is Getting Ready for Their First Moon Landing! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The Beresheet lander is on its way to the moon and Jupiter's magnetic field might be affecting Europa's ocean.
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

New Rovers: A Robot Eel and a Submarine!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's looking to send a giant robotic space eel to explore Europa, and a submarine to Titan. Let's go for a swim!
Instructional Video3:40
SciShow

Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
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 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 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 Video10:39
TED Talks

TED: 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life | James Green

12th - Higher Ed
Is there life beyond earth? Join NASA's director of planetary science James Green for a survey of the places in our solar system that are most likely to harbor alien life.
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 Video13:23
TED Talks

TED: SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration | Jennifer Heldmann

12th - Higher Ed
SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new -- and supersized -- way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help...
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 Video3:31
SciShow

Help Us Survive on Mars, and Name Your Own Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, we finally find out what’s causing those dark lines on Europa. Plus, learn how to become space-famous!