NASA
NASA | Mapping Mars' Upper Atmosphere
High above the thin Martian skies, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is carrying out a mission: determine how Mars lost its early atmosphere, and with it, its water. While previous Mars orbiters have peered down at the planet’s surface, MAVEN is...
NASA
Hubble Science: Exoplanets, Alien Atmospheres
For the past 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us understand are exoplanets. Video credit: NASA's Goddard...
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NASA | TDRS: Continuing The Fleet
NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that...
NASA
Hubble’s Servicing Mission 2
The Second Servicing Mission, launched Feb. 11, 1997, greatly improved Hubble's productivity. The installation of new instruments extended Hubble's wavelength range into the near infrared for imaging and spectroscopy, allowing us to...
Astrum
How do planets orbit in multi-star systems?
Can planets exist in multi-star systems, and what would that look like from their perspective? Thanks to Blinkist for sponsoring today's video.
Learning Mole
Earth
This animated video is all about earth's only natural satellite - The Moon. Students will love this engaging and interactive video.
NASA
Orion’s Journey - Part 2: Entering Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO)
On Artemis I, once Orion reaches the Moon, the spacecraft will travel in a distant retrograde orbit, or DRO. Learn more about Orion’s special path.
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NASA | Supermoon 2013
Dr. Michelle Thaller answers questions about what a Supermoon is and talks about how NASA is studying the moon with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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NASA | Water on the Moon
Since the 1960's, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the Moon's poles. While previous lunar missions have detected hints of water on the Moon, new data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
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NASA | Fermi at Five Years
This compilation summarizes the wide range of science from the first five years of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. Launched in...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Pluto with Alan Stern
In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute about what the July 2015 flyby of Pluto revealed about this mysterious and diverse world.
Next Animation Studio
Asteroid smasher set to launch this month
NASA is ready to launch a spacecraft that will smash into a big asteroid to make it change its course.
Wonderscape
Science Kids: The Space Race Then and Now
In this program, learn all about the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union dating back to the late 1950s and early 60s. Understand the historical context of the time. Contrast that to the current privatization of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Inner Planets Quiz
This video is a quick educational quiz about topics covered in our The Inner Planets series. The speaker asks ten questions and the viewer is expected to fill in the blanks to complete each sentence. The questions cover basic information...
NASA
TESS, Spitzer Spot Potential Giant World Circling Tiny Star
An international team of astronomers has reported what may be the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a white dwarf, a dense leftover of a Sun-like star that’s only 40% bigger than Earth. The detection of the Jupiter-size...
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OSIRIS-REx Sheds Light on Hazardous Asteroid Bennu
On September 25, 2135, an asteroid called Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth. Our planet’s gravity will tweak Bennu’s path, making it a challenge to calculate its future trajectory. During the flyby, there is an extremely small...
NASA
NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories...
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NASA | Return with LRO
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission. From following in the footsteps of her childhood heroes,to...
NASA
Five Things about Radiation Donuts
Have more questions about Earth’s radiation donuts? Ask our scientists in the comments below! Join Van Allen Probes scientists Feb. 12 from 1-3 p.m. EST10 a.m. - 12 p.m. PST to get your questions answered! Earth is surrounded by giant,...
Next Animation Studio
NASA’s plans for Gateway space station
NASA has released images of its Lunar Gateway space station ahead of its proposed launch of two modules in 2024.
NASA
Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planet's Atmosphere
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere. Together, GOLD...
Visual Learning Systems
The Movement of the Sun and Earth
In this video, we explore the question of whether the sun is moving or if it's the Earth that is moving. We also discover that the Earth's rotation on its axis is what causes day and night, while its orbit around the sun explains the...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Weather Cycles
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
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.