Instructional Video16:30
PBS

Earth Had Rings (and Might Regain Them)

12th - Higher Ed
Planet Earth is the jewel of the solar system—the shimmery blue oceans, the verdant green forests, the wispy whimsical cloud formations. Saturn is the only competitor for most gorgeous planet with that giant ring system. Hmm… what if we...
Instructional Video14:22
SciShow

No, Space Doesn’t Kill You Like That

12th - Higher Ed
Hollywood (and other fictional media) loves to show people dying in outer space. And it has several go-to causes of death, on a sliding scale of accuracy. But it turns out, reality has some ways to kill you that are far stranger than...
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

The Spacecraft That Wasn't Designed To Land, But Did

12th - Higher Ed
Many space missions take billions of dollars and decades of work to get develop, but 25 years ago this spacecraft delivered stunning results on a shoestring budget and a minimal development timeline.
Instructional Video9:41
SciShow

The 7 Coolest Active Space Probes

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve sent thousands of things into space over the years! Many of them just orbit the Earth, and some are flying out past the edges of the Solar System. In this episode, we present our favorite currently active space probes!
Instructional Video11:30
Crash Course

The Oort Cloud

12th - Higher Ed
Now that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system....
Instructional Video4:42
SciShow

The Solar System Might Have a New Dwarf Planet! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
After observing what we thought was just a big asteroid in the asteroid belt, a team of astronomers now thinks this might qualify as a dwarf planet. And scientists had the chance to directly observe the collision of two neutron stars for...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

Weird Names Around the Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
Not all of the objects in the solar system are named after Greek and Roman gods -- some are named after literary figures, movie stars, and don't get us started on what people think Earth is really called.
Instructional Video4:27
SciShow

Epic Meteor Adventure and Ozone Mystery

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow explores two celestial mysteries: the origins of a meteorite that crashed into a house in California, and who's releasing chemicals into the atmosphere that were banned more than 25 years ago?
Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...
Instructional Video3:28
SciShow

Future Space News of 2015: Destination Ceres and Pluto!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space brings you NEWS FROM THE FUTURE, with details about the space missions to look forward to in 2015.
Instructional Video9:52
SciShow

The 7 Coolest Active Space Probes

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve sent thousands of things into space over the years! Many of them just orbit the Earth, and some are flying out past the edges of the Solar System. In this episode, we present our favorite currently active space probes!
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There

12th - Higher Ed
Space Clue: 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia in the asteroid belt with evidence of being formed outside of it. But the real mystery is how they got there! And we again return to Ganymede with new evidence suggesting even more kinds of water...
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

What We Learned from the Kepler Space Telescope - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
October was bittersweet for space scientists as we said goodbye to both the Kepler Space Telescope and Dawn mission.
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

The First Results from NASA's InSight Lander! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We finally have some results from the InSight lander’s measurements on Mars, and the Japanese Space Agency is moving forward with a probe that will explore Mars’s moons.
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
Instructional Video5:11
SciShow

What We've Learned from the Dawn Mission So Far

12th - Higher Ed
The Dawn spacecraft has been exploring the two largest objects in the asteroid belt since 2007, and here's what we've learned so far!
Instructional Video5:25
SciShow

How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?

12th - Higher Ed
It's virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

Pioneer 10: Our First View into Outer Planets

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1970's, no vehicle had gone beyond the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, that is until Pioneer 10.
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

Found Dozens of Ancient Cryovolcanoes on Ceres! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists may have discovered up to 31 more cryovolcano remnants on Ceres, and the Iridium flares are slowly being allowed to burn up in our atmosphere, so see them while you still can!
Instructional Video11:22
Crash Course

Asteroids

12th - Higher Ed
Now that we’ve finished our tour of the planets, we’re headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of smallish planets but were destroyed after collisions. Most orbit the Sun between...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

Mind the (Solar System's) Gap

12th - Higher Ed
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not...
Instructional Video10:50
MinuteEarth

MinuteEarth Explains: Space

12th - Higher Ed
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we travel beyond Earth and explore some of our favorite mysteries about space.
Instructional Video25:27
SciShow

The Disappointing Reality of the Asteroid Belt | SciShow Tangents: Asteroids

12th - Higher Ed
Welcome to SciShow Tangents, the lightly competitive game show podcast brought to you by the team behind SciShow! For too long, you've only been able to hear SciShow Tangents. Well, no more! SciShow Tangents has officially come to...