Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Rocket Landing on a Drone Ship!

12th - Higher Ed
Falcon 9 has successfully landed and NASA redirects the Kepler telescope out of emergency mode!
Instructional Video2:17
SciShow

NASA's Plan to Capture an Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin Hofmeister walks you through NASA's planned Asteroid Retrieval Mission, which aims to capture a space-rock and put it in lunar orbit for study -- all by 2025!
Instructional Video5:57
SciShow

The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!

12th - Higher Ed
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
Instructional Video4:09
SciShow

Two Tragic Crashes

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News looks into two recent rocket failures over U.S. soil, exploring possible causes and sizing up the risks of spaceflight since humans first started reaching for the stars.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Future Space News of 2018

12th - Higher Ed
Here's a sneak peek at three missions coming up in 2018. We have rockets launching, spacecraft arriving at their destinations, and missions coming to an end.
Instructional Video2:57
SciShow

Get Ready for Orion

12th - Higher Ed
On Thursday, December 4th 2014, NASA will conduct the first test flight of its new deep space crew vehicle, going farther than any passenger vehicle has in over 40 years. Get ready to meet Orion!
Instructional Video24:58
TED Talks

Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

12th - Higher Ed
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a...
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

3 Space Missions to Look for in 2021

12th - Higher Ed
2021 is expected to bring some very exciting missions: We're putting more cool tech on Mars, going back around the Moon, and testing some sweet planetary defense from asteroids!
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

Great Minds: Robert Goddard, Original Rocket Scientist

12th - Higher Ed
Get to know Robert Goddard, one of the original rocket scientists!
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

Space Guns Don't Work (But We Built One Anyway)

12th - Higher Ed
Before we had rockets like the Falcon 9, we had other ideas of how we might shoot for the moon: space guns!
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

Take a Ride on the Interplanetary Superhighway

12th - Higher Ed
Normal interplanetary travel uses lots of fuel, but taking advantage of some quirks of gravity can let us travel between planets using hardly any fuel at all.
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

The SpaceX Explosion

12th - Higher Ed
What went wrong with SpaceX's Falcon 9 on September 1st? And an update on our old friend Philae!
Instructional Video8:01
TED Talks

Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time

12th - Higher Ed
Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs' Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster -- by getting smaller. He...
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

SpaceX Is Sending People to the Moon!

12th - Higher Ed
SpaceX is spearheading space travel for consumers and one day hopes to take people to the moon!
Instructional Video3:59
SciShow

Big Idea: Gunpowder

12th - Higher Ed
Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of eternal life discovered the world's first chemical explosive. Hank has the full story on gunpowder in this SciShow about a big idea of science.
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

How SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket

12th - Higher Ed
We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

3 Space Mission Problems in a Week - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
It's been a tough week for space missions, from a failed Soyuz launch to two emergency shutdowns of space-based telescopes.
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

Are Aliens Signaling Us?

12th - Higher Ed
I'm not saying it's aliens....and it's probably not aliens. Also, an update about the most recent SpaceX explosion!
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

Using Galaxy Clusters to Look Into the Past

12th - Higher Ed
Gravitational lensing has given us a look at a galaxy in the very, very distant cosmic past using x-ray light, and NASA finally got its ICON mission off the ground!
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

What's Next for the James Webb Space Telescope

12th - Higher Ed
It finally happened! The James Webb Space Telescope is on its way to capturing never-before-seen images of the universe! But now that it’s airborne and unfurled, what are its next steps before it can deliver the goods?
Instructional Video4:01
SciShow

What We Learned from the Apollo 1 Fire

12th - Higher Ed
The Apollo 1 fire was a tragedy and a huge wake-up call for NASA, causing them to get much more serious about their safety procedures and technology, and also changed their attitude towards spaceflight in general.
Instructional Video3:46
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: A trip through space to calculate distance - Heather Tunnell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Imagine two aliens racing across outer space to their moon. Who can we deem the fastest alien? With DIRT -- or the equation Distance = Rate x Time -- we can calculate their rates, using the distance they traveled and the time they took....
Instructional Video6:36
Bozeman Science

Interaction Forces

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how forces on an object always require another object. An object cannot exert a force on itself. If net forces on an object are balanced the object will remain at rest or move with a constant...
Instructional Video7:53
SciShow

The Future of Air Travel

12th - Higher Ed
It used to be that you could get on a Concorde jet and fly across the Atlantic ocean faster than the speed of sound, but what does the future hold for supersonic flight?