Instructional Video12:22
SciShow

6 Ways Aliens Could Find Us

12th - Higher Ed
Whether or not you think humans should be announcing our presence to the cosmos, we're doing it, anyway. Both intentionally, and not. And if aliens really do exist, there are several ways they could find us. Here are six of them.
Instructional Video6:52
TED Talks

An Astrophysicist on a Mission to Uncover the Secrets of Space

12th - Higher Ed
In the past decade, astronomers have discovered interstellar objects, including a 2014 meteor that collided with Earth and 'Oumuamua in 2017. These objects, moving too fast to be bound by the Sun's gravity, have sparked questions about...
Instructional Video14:31
PBS

Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?

12th - Higher Ed
Space is pretty deadly. But is it so deadly that we’re effectively imprisoned in our solar system forever? Many have said so, but a few have actually figured it out.
Instructional Video13:58
PBS

Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
With the global pandemic of Covid 19 still encompassing the world, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That’s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little...
Instructional Video14:09
PBS

How To Know If It's Aliens

12th - Higher Ed
There’s one rule on Space Time: It’s never Aliens. But every rule has an exception and this rule is no exception because: It’s never aliens, until it is. So is it aliens yet? And on today’s Space Time we’re going to examine all the best...
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Instructional Video9:41
SciShow

The 7 Coolest Active Space Probes

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video31:47
SciShow

Black Holes: The Hungriest Things in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you thought a hot dog eating contest was impressive to complete, imagine if a black hole entered it! They eat up everything around them, including stars! But they’re not just gluttonous blobs of the universe. Like all things in space,...
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow Kids

The Farthest We’ve Ever Gone in Space

K - 5th
Humans have never visited another planet, but we can send special spacecraft called probes to visit them for us! One of those probes, called Voyager 1, has gone deeper into space than any other, and it's sent us some amazing pictures...
Instructional Video9:52
SciShow

The 7 Coolest Active Space Probes

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video12:16
SciShow

How Long Can Humans Outrun Extinction?

12th - Higher Ed
In a few million years, we’re going to have to leave Earth if we want to survive. But how long can we actually outrun extinction before the universe becomes uninhabitable to us?
Instructional Video4:37
SciShow

New Discoveries from Our Second Interstellar Visitor - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This year, scientists have had a chance to study something pretty mind-boggling: a comet that came from outside of our solar system.
Instructional Video5:47
SciShow

How Long Will the Voyager Spacecraft Last?

12th - Higher Ed
For more than 40 years, the Voyager probes have traveled through space sending back all kinds of fascinating data. But these probes were never meant to send us data forever - so how much longer will these amazing probes last?
Instructional Video13:04
PBS

Oumuamua Is Not Aliens

12th - Higher Ed
To repeat the space time maxim: it's never aliens .... until it is. So let's talk about 'oumuamua.
Instructional Video2:53
SciShow

3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

Is There Sound in Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Sound can't actually travel through a vacuum like space, but scientists have learned that there's still plenty to hear.
Instructional Video3:39
Curated Video

Is There Sound in Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Sound can't actually travel through a vacuum like space, but scientists have learned that there's still plenty to hear.
Instructional Video3:24
SciShow

The Mystery of the Black Diamond

12th - Higher Ed
There are still lots of unsolved mystery about carbonados ("black diamonds"), and geologists even think those mystery rocks come from outside of Earth.
Instructional Video9:05
PBS

The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor

12th - Higher Ed
We were recently visited by a traveler from outside our solar system. This is the first time we've ever seen an object that came to us from interstellar space. It's name is 'Oumuamua.
Instructional Video3:44
SciShow

Where Does the Solar System End?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space explains how different experts define our the boundaries of our solar system and why it's way more complicated (and interesting) than it sounds.
Instructional Video5:55
SciShow

New Ways to Study Interstellar Space... With Voyager!

12th - Higher Ed
Voyager 1 may be out of our solar system (and 40+ years old) but we're still getting plenty of new data from our interstellar space probe.
Instructional Video12:16
SciShow

How We Know Star Wars Isn’t A Documentary | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Plot often trumps reality when portraying space in movies and, as a result, many films are full of inaccuracies. So how much fiction is actually written into some of our favorite movies? Movies mentioned (and potentially spoiled) in this...
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Voyager 2’s Notes from Interstellar Space | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Voyager 2 is the second object to leave our solar system, which means we now have twice as much information about its edges! And scientists have found a record-breaking black hole.
Instructional Video4:55
SciShow

What's It Like at the Edge of the Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
Where does our solar system end, and interstellar space begin, and what is it like there? Satellites and probes like IBEX and Voyager 1 & 2 help us get a better look at our special corner of the galaxy.