Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...
Instructional Video5:25
SciShow

Cassini’s Last Hurrah & Hints About Saturn’s Rings

12th - Higher Ed
Cassini is about to take its final dive into the rings of Saturn, and scientists are still debating the status of water on our moon.
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 Video9:52
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 Video3:28
SciShow

The Lost Cargo Ship, and Pluto Has Ice Caps!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News explains how we lost track of a resupply mission, explores Pluto’s newfound ice caps, and helps you find Mercury.
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

RIP Philae? The Latest on the Comet Mission

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News explains what happened to Philae, the first spacecraft on the surface of a comet, and shares what scientists say about the future of the mission.
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
Instructional Video4:18
SciShow

The Coolest Space Mission You May Have Never Heard Of

12th - Higher Ed
Some space missions get a lot of attention, but not all the biggest space exploration stories get the recognition they deserve. This is the story of a robotic craft that captured the first-ever glimpse of a comet’s icy core!
Instructional Video3:36
SciShow

Mission Cliffhanger On Venus

12th - Higher Ed
Akatsuki missed Venus once, but with a little ingenuity and its secondary engines, it's heading back on December 7th!
Instructional Video5:50
SciShow

Cassini's Dangerous Dives Through Saturn's Rings

12th - Higher Ed
The Cassini probe is getting more dangerous assignments as its mission nears its end, and the sun's surface may be simpler than we once thought.
Instructional Video24:42
SciShow

One-on-One Conversation with New Horizons Scientist

12th - Higher Ed
Hank interviews Dr. Alex Harrison Parker about New Horizons' Pluto flyby, what's next for the probe, and what we can anticipate learning about the solar system's history!
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 Video5:23
SciShow

Fun in the Summer Sun… on Saturn

12th - Higher Ed
For 13 years, the Cassini probe circled Saturn and sent back fascinating data about the seasons of Saturn as it moved through a 29 Earth year Saturnian year.
Instructional Video5:48
SciShow

Catching Solar Wind: A Truly Endless Energy Source?

12th - Higher Ed
We could quite possibly catch solar winds as a means for endless energy, and though it sounds like science fiction, we have the materials to do this now.
Instructional Video5:31
SciShow

15 Futuristic Space Mission Concepts in 5 Minutes

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program has funded a slew of new space mission concepts! Which one is your favorite?
Instructional Video3:43
SciShow

That Time NASA Recycled a Mars Lander

12th - Higher Ed
While most spacecraft are designed and built from scratch for one particular mission, the Phoenix Lander was pieced together from previous missions and rose from the ashes...all the way to Mars.
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Hottest Planet Ever

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is launching a mission to send a probe into the sun, and it's the first to be named after a living scientist: Eugene Parker and the Parker Solar Probe! Astronomers have found another hot topic, and it's the hottest planet we've ever...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

25 Years of Hubble, and MESSENGER's Grand Finale

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News explains two of the Hubble Space Telescope's most important discoveries, and why the MESSENGER probe is about to crash into Mercury.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

Pioneer 10: Our First View into Outer Planets

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1970's, no vehicle had gone beyond the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, that is until Pioneer 10.
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

"Spaceflight Is Hard"

12th - Higher Ed
An ISS-bound rocket exploded on Sunday, and New Horizons has a tough job finding Pluto.
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

The Fiery, Pitch-Black Egg-Planet

12th - Higher Ed
Last week, the Cassini probe dove into Saturn, never to be heard from again, but thankfully, Cassini wasn't the only probe out there. And we've also found an exoplanet that might be even darker and stranger than we thought.
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

5 Spacecraft That Got a New Lease on Life

12th - Higher Ed
When something breaks on a spaceship, there's not an auto-shop it can pull up to, so NASA scientists have to get creative.
Instructional Video14:13
TED Talks

Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids

12th - Higher Ed
What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid...
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.