SciShow
The End of Everything
Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
TED Talks
TED: A futuristic vision of the age of holograms | Alex Kipman
explore a speculative digital world without screens in this fanciful demo, a mix of near reality and far-future possibility. Wearing the HoloLens headset, Alex Kipman demos his vision for bringing 3D holograms into the real world,...
SciShow
White Holes: An Impossible Possibility
Reid Reimers expands your mind with an explanation of white holes -- celestial objects that almost definitely are not real things that can be found in nature. Except, we might have actually seen one.
SciShow
Red Nugget Galaxies The Universe's Ultimate Survivors
Finding a red nugget galaxy is like discovering a time capsule from the early universe.
TED Talks
Risa Wechsler: The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far
Roughly 85 percent of mass in the universe is "dark matter" -- mysterious material that can't be directly observed but has an immense influence on the cosmos. What exactly is this strange stuff, and what does it have to do with our...
PBS
What Happens at the Event Horizon?
What really happens when you approach the event horizon of a black hole?
SciShow
No, We Did Not Just Solve Dark Matter and Dark Energy - SciShow News
A paper published last week proposed a hypothesis that identified 95% of the missing stuff in the universe, but the headlines have been a little over-hyped.
TED Talks
TED: How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham
James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CeRN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and accessible talk about how science happens, Beacham takes us...
SciShow
A Dying Hot Jupiter and The Birth of Carbon Planets
We think we discovered a Hot Jupiter being consumed by its star! Hank Green explains this and the birth of carbon planets in this episode of SciShow News.
SciShow
A New Idea About Tabby's Star!
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
SciShow
The Amazing Cosmic Discovery That Almost Was
SciShow Space News revisits one of the biggest (potential) astronomical discoveries of 2014, one that promised to revolutionize our understanding of the formation of the universe. Turns out, we're not quite there yet.
SciShow
What Stephen Hawking Really Said About Black Holes
Hank explains the science behind recent reports that physics great Stephen Hawking said "there are no black holes." There are. They're just super complicated.
Crash Course
A Brief History of the Universe
Thanks to the wonders of physics, astronomers can map a timeline of the universe’s history. Today, Phil’s going to give you an overview of those first few minutes (yes, MINUTES) of the universe’s life. It started with a Big Bang, when...
MinutePhysics
Length Contraction and Time Dilation | Special Relativity Ch. 5
This video is chapter 5 in my series on special relativity, and it covers how things that are moving (that is, moving relative to an inertial reference frame) at different speeds appear to be shorter in length... and longer in length....
SciShow
What We (Don't) Know About Dark Matter
Scientists are still working on theories that might help explain what the vast majority of our universe is made of.
SciShow
The First Exoplanets Were Found Around... a Pulsar
The first time scientists found exoplanets, they were orbiting something very different from our sun: a pulsar.
TED Talks
TED: We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we? | Betül Kaçar
Life makes our planet an incredibly exotic place compared to the rest of the known universe, says astrobiologist Betül Kaçar, whose research uses statistics and mathematical models to simulate ancient environments and gather insights...
MinutePhysics
2011 Nobel Prize - Dark Energy feat. Sean Carroll
Guest narrator Sean Carroll of Caltech describes dark energy and the acceleration of the universe, the discovery of which was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 4th.
SciShow
3 Amazing Objects to Check Out with Your New Telescope
When astronomers study the universe, they’re often using telescopes that cost millions or even billions of dollars to build. Luckily for the rest of us, there are still plenty of incredible things to see in the sky with the more...
SciShow
We Detected Water Plumes on Europa... 20 Years Ago
Researchers found surprising new evidence hiding in data captured back in 1997, and we've discovered stars forming in a distant galaxy as early as 250 million years after the Big Bang.
SciShow
New Dwarf Planet (Maybe) Discovered
Back in 2014, an international team of astronomers was taking pictures of distant galaxies, when they noticed a dot moving across their images. Could it be Planet Nine?
SciShow
Future Space News of 2015: Destination Ceres and Pluto!
SciShow Space brings you NEWS FROM THE FUTURE, with details about the space missions to look forward to in 2015.
SciShow
New Supernova, and Internet on the Moon
SciShow Space shares the latest news from the around the universe, including the first supernova observed in real time, and Internet service on the moon. Finally!
SciShow
The Boomerang Nebula: The Coolest Place in Outer Space
The Boomerang Nebula is colder than space! And it's not really shaped like a boomerang!