Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

Forecasting the Weather...on the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
The sun is beginning a new weather cycle, causing debate among scientists about how intense things are going to get, and elsewhere, scientists are looking into just how fluid our early universe was.
Instructional Video6:16
TED Talks

TED: How I became part sea urchin | Catherine Mohr

12th - Higher Ed
As a young scientist, Catherine Mohr was on her dream scuba trip -- when she put her hand right down on a spiny sea urchin. While a school of sharks circled above. What happened next? More than you can possibly imagine. Settle in for...
Instructional Video5:40
SciShow

What Knocked Over Uranus And Two Other Mysteries?

12th - Higher Ed
The most common type of exoplanets might be worlds like our ice giant, Uranus. Understanding it could be key to the history of planets all over the galaxy.
Instructional Video12:45
TED Talks

TED: Adventures of an interplanetary architect | Xavier De Kestelier

12th - Higher Ed
How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On earth, natural resources for creating structures are abundant, but sending these materials up with us to the Moon or Mars is clunky and cost-prohibitive. enter architect Xavier De Kestelier,...
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

3 Mars Mysteries We Really Should Have Solved By Now

12th - Higher Ed
We've learned a lot about Mars over the years, but we keep uncovering new mysteries - important, fundamental aspects of The Red Planet that we just can't explain. Here are three of them.
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 Video2:39
SciShow

How to Catch a Bird… If You’re a Fish

12th - Higher Ed
Some toothy tigerfish have been documented catching unlikely prey in the most unlikely of ways: snatching birds right out of the sky.
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

How Do Spacecraft Survive Re-Entry?

12th - Higher Ed
How do spacecraft survive the enormous heat and crushing g's of re-entry? And why don't astronauts actually land in rockets, like they do in cartoons and comic books? SciShow Space explains!
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 Video5:13
SciShow

This New Star Is a Ticking Time Bomb - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We might be sitting next to the largest bomb in the galaxy and NASA's InSight lander will touch down on Mars this Monday!
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 Video7:37
PBS

Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?

12th - Higher Ed
Mars One. The Mars Rover. Bruno Mars. Mars Bars. It's pretty clear we're OBSESSED with the idea of Mars, especially in regard to it being a potential colony for earthlings. But is that really the best option? Is there a better place for...
Instructional Video10:36
Curated Video

Venus

12th - Higher Ed
Venus is a gorgeous naked-eye planet, hanging like a diamond in the twilight -- but it’s beauty is best looked at from afar. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, due to a runaway...
Instructional Video3:31
SciShow

Help Us Survive on Mars, and Name Your Own Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, we finally find out what’s causing those dark lines on Europa. Plus, learn how to become space-famous!
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

Mystery Solved: We Finally Know Why Betelgeuse Suddenly Faded | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Our neighboring star Betelgeuse got noticeably dimmer a few months ago, and thanks to the Hubble telescope, we recently figured out what was going on. Also, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suffered some damage this week.
Instructional Video11:29
SciShow

7 Ways We Know What's Inside the Earth

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to some amazing scientific insights, we know a lot about the interior of our planet - even though we’ve never even made it through the crust.
Instructional Video6:13
SciShow

We've Never Seen a Pulsar Explode Like This - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Spacebit is sending crawling, jumping, mini-robots to the moon, and researchers have witnessed a pulsar emit a very cool combination of traits in its most recent flare.
Instructional Video4:55
SciShow

3 Times We Thought We Found Aliens

12th - Higher Ed
Earthlings have been searching for alien life for centuries, and more than a few times we were confident that we'd found evidence, but to err is human after all.
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

Top 5 Coolest Things about Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
In which Hank celebrates the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover which you know was pretty freaking cool. So here are the Top Five Coolest Things about the Mars Curiosity Rover!
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

Tatooine Discovered?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

How We Proved Earth Rotates Using a Giant Swinging Ball

12th - Higher Ed
People have suspected that Earth rotates for thousands of years, but how did we first prove it?
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 Video3:23
SciShow

Mission to Europa Unveiled!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has announced the scientific instruments for the Europa Clipper mission, and Cassini has passed Hyperion, the so-called “spongy moon,” for the last time.
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow

Maybe Mars's Ocean Never Left | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Many researchers believe that all the water on Mars dried up, but some evidence suggests that it might have dried in.