SciShow
Three Great Minds Behind Apollo 11 | Compilation
It's the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, a monolith in mankind's journey to the stars. Celebrate with this compilation of great minds that lended their knowledge to the momentous event.
SciShow
Wernher von Braun: From Nazis to NASA
The American space program wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for the contributions of a scientist who was also a former Nazi. Learn about the life and work of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.
SciShow
Great Minds: Robert Goddard, Original Rocket Scientist
Get to know Robert Goddard, one of the original rocket scientists!
SciShow
The Most Sophisticated Mirror in the Universe
Hank summarizes the five reasons why infrared telescopes were supposed to be impossible to build, and then describes how a team of scientists and engineers overcame those obstacles to build the James Webb Space Telescope.
Crash Course
Eugenics and Francis Galton: Crash Course History of Science
After Darwin blew the doors off the scientific community, a lot of people did some weird and unscientific stuff with his ideas. Francis Galton and a few others decided natural selection could be used to make the human race "better" and...
Curated Video
Glassblowing: The Intersection of Craftsmanship and Science
This video showcases the skill and artistry of master glassblower Bob Harris, who creates intricate glass components for scientific experiments at the Goddard Space Flight Centre. With over 22 years of experience, Harris is able to...
Weird History
Origins of Common Terms
Have you ever heard a word or phrase and wondered when people started saying it? And why? Language is constantly changing, and many of the common terms and phrases we use in everyday conversation have much deeper meanings than we...
Curated Video
After Hours in the 1920's: Kate Meyrick and the 43 Club
National Archives: Join one of the co-curators of The 1920s: Beyond the Roar exhibition to explore the surprising records found at The National Archives relating to Twenties night-life and the reign of Kate Meyrick - the Queen of...
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week: Keeping Up With Carbon
"Keeping Up With Carbon" is the final episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of...
NASA
The Invisible Network: 22. LCRD - The Future | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
In this final episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the future of optical communications technologies at NASA.
NASA
The Invisible Network: 05: Marrow | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
The technologies that fuel NASA's exploration don't just stay in space. They benefit humanity in everyday life — sometimes in surprising ways, like how a NASA communications engineer helped create a system that freezes bone marrow.
NASA
The Invisible Network: 06. Next-Gen | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
CubeSats are small satellites, some weighing as little as 3 pounds. They provide opportunities for small-scale research in space, and an avenue for young scientists — some as young as middle school-aged — to see their curiosity take...
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week: The Ocean's Green Machines
"The Ocean's Green Machines" is Episode 3 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. These...
NASA
NASA | A Tour of NASA Goddard Photography on Social Media
Image Coordinator Rebecca Roth discusses the process in which she chooses images to be displayed in NASA Goddard's Social Media presence.
NASA
Elegance: Music & Math
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, this past summer, sometimes before the start of the work day, interns Philip Lu and Gabriel Apaza played impromptu classical piano concerts on the Steinway in Goddard's...
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week: Salt of the Earth
"Salt of the Earth" is Episode 4 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Salinity plays a major role in how ocean waters circulate around the globe. Salinity...
NASA
NASA | Goddard's Detector Technology
Behind those stunning NASA images are specialized detectors developed, fabricated, and packaged here at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Tour the Detector Development Lab (DDL) and see how these first-of-a-kind detectors are created....
NASA
NASA | The Road to Glory
Glory is a unique research satellite designed to orbit the Earth and achieve two major goals. Glory's first goal is to collect data on the properties of aerosols and black carbon in the Earth's atmosphere and climate system; its second...
NASA
Webb Telescope Milestone: Completion of Telescope Element
Thousands of people, for almost two decades, accomplished the construction of the telescope element of the largest space telescope ever created. The optical and science segment of the James Webb Space Telescope stands complete in one of...
NASA
NASA | X-ray 'Echoes' Probe Habitat of Monster Black Hole
Astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite have found a long-sought X-ray signal from NGC 4151, a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole. The discovery promises a new way to unravel what's...
NASA
NASA | Fermi discovers giant gamma-ray bubbles in the Milky Way
Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy. This never-before-seen feature looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy's center....
NASA
NASA Referees Test of Footballs vs. Webb Telescope
While two football teams will be put to the test at Super Bowl LI in Houston, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are testing the most powerful space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space...
NASA
NASA | TIRS: The Thermal InfraRed Sensor on LDCM
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate...
NASA
NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across...