Curated Video
What Are The Differences Between Asteroids, Comets & Meteors? | The Space Rocks Song!
Let's learn about the differences between asteroids, comets, and meteors!
Curated Video
What Are Asteroids And Where Do They Come From?
Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun, just like the rest of the planets and celestial bodies in our solar system. Although asteroids are present throughout the solar system, most of them live in the asteroid belt—a...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: How NASA Communicates Space
NASA communicators describe the various ways that the agency connects with mass audiences. HWHAP Episode 233.
NASA
On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 6: The Prospects of Heavy Metal
Asteroids, ho! Pioneering space miners dream of Psyche, the largest metal asteroid in the solar system.
FuseSchool
The Solar System Part 1| Astrophysics
"""CREDITS Animation & Design: Joshua Thomas Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Alistair Haynes In this video we will begin to look at some of the key features that describe the parts our Solar System. Quite simply it is the name given to...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Jupiter with Jared Espley
As large as 1,000 Earths, Jupiter is the heavy hitter of the solar system. Even its Great Red Spot is larger than Earth, yet it’s shrinking! In this episode of Gravity Assist, Planetary Science Director Jim Green talks with Jared Espley...
NASA
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 55, Psyche Mission Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Psyche Mission Co-investigator Ben Weiss discusses the mission to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
NASA
On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 4: Deflecting Disaster
Unlike the dinosaurs, we have a space program. There are many ways we could steer an asteroid off its path towards Earth.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Exploring the Cosmos with Styx
Glenn Lutz and John Connolly, exploration experts at NASA, chat with Tommy Shaw and Lawrence Gowan from the band Styx about human exploration of the solar system. They discuss the challenges of sending humans into deep space and draw...
Mazz Media
Asteroid
This live-action video program is about the word Asteroid. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Asteroid through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Visual Learning Systems
Our Galaxy and Stars: Quiz (Our Galaxy and Stars)
This captivating series of programs explores many of the amazing features of our universe. Special attention is given to our solar system, distances in space, and stars. Terminology and concepts include: Milky Way Galaxy, light-year,...
NASA
Gravity Assist: This Asteroid Is Metal, With Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Scientists will soon have the opportunity to visit a unique object in the asteroid belt called Psyche, which may be the exposed metallic core of a planetary body that stopped growing before it became a big planet like Earth. Dr. Lindy...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Asteroid Hunting with Lindley Johnson
NASA has been on the lookout for any asteroid that could cause our planet harm and, in the thousands of objects found, determined that none poses a threat to Earth.
NASA
On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 5: Catch a Falling Star
Why are missions like OSIRIS-REx bringing pieces of an asteroid back home?
NASA
On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 3: Bracing for a Crash
If a big asteroid is heading our way, how does NASA prepare for the oncoming disaster?
Astrum
What did NASA's Dawn mission discover while at Vesta?
NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?
Visual Learning Systems
Our Distant Neighbors: the Most Massive Planet
Upon viewing the Our Distant Neighbors video series, students will be able to do the following: Create a simple diagram of the sun and the orbital paths of each planet around the sun. Label each of the eight planets. Explain that the sun...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Scouting an Asteroid
Les Johnson and Julie Castillo-Rogez describe an experiment that will be deployed from the Artemis I mission to explore a near-Earth asteroid. HWHAP Episode 235.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Lucy and the Space Fossils, with Hal Levison
To get a more complete understanding of the full history of our solar system, NASA is sending a spacecraft called Lucy to investigate the Trojans, mysterious small objects that share an orbit of the Sun with Jupiter. Principal...
Curated Video
Asteroide
Este programa de video de accion en vivo es sobre la palabra asteroide. El programa esta disenado para reforzar y apoyar la comprension y retencion del estudiante de la palabra asteroide mediante el uso de secuencias de video,...
Next Animation Studio
The Sun will someday destroy the asteroid belt before it dies
Billions of years from now, the Sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and enter what astronomers call the ‘giant branch’ phase.
Next Animation Studio
Emirates spacecraft to study Venus, grab sample from asteroid
The United Arab Emirates plans to send a probe to study one hot planet and seven asteroids before landing on an asteroid.
NASA
Gravity Assist: The Bright Spot of the Asteroid Belt, with Britney Schmidt
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is a mysterious dwarf planet called Ceres. Its surface is dark and muddy, but has hundreds of patches of bright material.
NASA
NASA | Asteroid Bennu's Journey
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years, Asteroid Bennu...