TED Talks
Jill Seubert: How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration
Ask any deep space navigator like Jill Seubert what makes steering a spacecraft difficult, and they'll tell you it's all about the timing; a split-second can decide a mission's success or failure. So what do you do when a spacecraft is...
SciShow Kids
Are Aliens Real?
Have you ever wondered if aliens exist? You're not alone! Learn about what alien life needs to survive in the universe!
SciShow
The Sun’s Electric Field Isn’t as Strong as We Thought!
The sun shapes the solar system in many ways, including through its mysterious solar wind, which was thought to be pushed through the force of the sun’s electric field. Recent observations revealed, though, that that hypothesis may not...
Crash Course
How Does the Earth Move Crash Course Geography
Today, we're going to talk about how the Earth moves, but to do that, we're going to have to go way back to the early days of the galaxy! Processes that happened before the Earth even formed have led us to the geographic patterns and...
SciShow
Why Venus Could Doom 'Habitable' Exoplanets
There are exoplanets out there that seem very Earth-like, but if you look out and see liquid metal instead of liquid water, you might be in the Venus zone.
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Israel Is Getting Ready for Their First Moon Landing! SciShow News
The Beresheet lander is on its way to the moon and Jupiter's magnetic field might be affecting Europa's ocean.
SciShow
How the Movement of Other Planets Affects Earth — Yes, Really
Scientists have found at least three cycles in nature that can be traced back to the alignment of the planets. And while they won’t tell you anything about your love life or personality, by studying them, we can learn about our planet’s...
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A New Dwarf Planet?
Astronomer Jean-Luc Margot has come up with a new definition for planets that may help us categorize worlds outside of the solar system, and we may have also discovered a new dwarf planet within the solar system!
TED Talks
TED: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life | Nathalie Cabrol
While we like to imagine little green men, it's far more likely that life on other planets will be microbial. Planetary scientist Nathalie Cabrol takes us inside the search for microbes on Mars, a hunt which counterintuitively leads us...
SciShow
Space Exploration Isn’t Great for the Earth (But It Could Be)
Building and launching rockets to learn about other worlds hasn't been great for Earth, but environmental engineers are working on changing that legacy.
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3 Ridiculously Extreme Black Holes
Black holes are some of the most extreme astronomical objects out there, but there are some that really standout. Let's look at black holes that grow larger, consume more, and spin faster than the rest.
Crash Course
Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It has no atmosphere and is, as such, covered in craters. It's also incredibly hot but, surprisingly, has water ice hiding beneath its surface.
SciShow
How Pluto’s Heart Makes Its Atmosphere Spin Backward - SciShow News
Pluto's heart is revealing itself to be a major influence on the dwarf planet’s landscape and atmosphere, and scientists used atom probe tomography (APT) for the first time on lunar soil to study it atom by atom!
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Updates on the Hunt for Dark Matter - SciShow Space News
The hunt for dark matter is still on, and the candidates for it could be primordial black holes as massive as Earth, or axions, as tiny as the smallest subatomic particles in existence!
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3 Bizarre Projects That Could Transform Exploration - NIAC 2019
Every amazing mission you know about today started off as just an idea, and some of 2019’s early phase NIAC concepts could mean big things for our future.
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Dark Matter May Have Come Before the Big Bang! SciShow News
A new study provides mathematical evidence that dark matter could be much older than we thought and we've found a weird glitch in a neutron star.
Crash Course
Orbitals: Crash Course Chemistry
In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank discusses what Molecules actually look like and why, some quantum-mechanical three dimensional wave functions are explored, he touches on hybridization, and delves into sigma and pi bonds....
SciShow
Was the Apollo Program a Bad Idea A SciShow Documentary
The Apollo program was famous for being risky and expensive. It had a crunched timeline, daring astronauts, and lacked modern tech, and that all kind of makes you wonder… was the Apollo program a bad idea?
TED Talks
TED: Adventures of an asteroid hunter | Carrie Nugent
TeD Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent...
SciShow
Early Galaxies Ran on Empty Gas Tanks
Many galaxies formed fast after the Big Bang, but about half of them suddenly stopped making new stars and it looks like this is literally because they ran out of gas. And with new instruments and techniques, we are now finding lost...
TED Talks
Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home
Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy a spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASA JPL's "Eyes on the Solar System" -- free-to-use software for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun...
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The Coolest Things We Didn't Know About Pluto Two Years Ago
On July 14, 2015, New Horizons flew by Pluto. Scientists have used the data from the mission so far to uncover active geology, an enormous canyon, a unique case of chemical coloration, and more. What else might we discover as we venture...
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Starquakes Could Be Behind 3 Cosmic Mysteries
We’ve detected seismic activity all around the solar system, from earthquakes to moonquakes, marsquakes to venusquakes. But the most dramatic quakes we know of actually happen on stars!
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5 Ways Antarctica is the Place to Study Space
Antartica is a cold and isolated place, but intrepid scientists have found ways to make use of its environment, and turn it into one of the ideal places to study our skies.