In this SciShow Kids episode, Jessi and Squeaks learn about amazing places where it almost never rains. <br/>

At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life dating back 6.5 million to 9 million years ago, in the Late Miocene Epoch. But the identity of the killer...

The nara melon is as juicy as any other, so how is it able to grow in the hyper-arid Namib desert?

The nara melon is as juicy as any other, so how is it able to grow in the hyper-arid Namib desert?

Other worlds don't seem very welcoming to us Earthlings, and it can be hard to practice our off-world explorations from millions of kilometers away. But Earth also has its fair share of hostile places that we can use to prepare for those...

Discovering the Atacama Desert, Chile:Next, we'll venture to the otherworldly landscapes of the Atacama Desert in Chile's Antofagasta region. Explore the surreal beauty of the Valley of the Moon and encounter flamingos at the National...

The weather down here can get pretty crazy. But we got curious and asked: just how extreme can weather actually get on planet earth? So we decided to travel the world in search of answers and discovered not only some fascinating answers,...

With unprecedented heat waves and record-breaking global temperatures, it’s hard to believe that there might be a place on earth that has actually COOLED since the industrial revolution.

Discover the diverse biomes of North America, from its vast forests to arid deserts and icy tundras, and learn about its famous natural landmarks. Explore South America's unique ecosystems, including the Amazon rainforest, the mighty...

Explore the Anthropocene Epoch, a proposed geological epoch highlighting the significant impact humans have had on Earth's ecosystems and climate. From vast landfills in Kenya to lithium mines in Chile's Atacama Desert, and the warming...

Hyperion is a cutting-edge NASA robotic prototype designed for Mars exploration. It is being tested in Chile's Atacama Desert, known for its extreme aridity and lack of organic life. The ultimate goal is to develop a robot capable of...

With igneous rocks understood, let's move on to the second type of rock, sedimentary rock. What are sediments, and how do they come together to form sedimentary rocks? What can we say about the size of such a rock? It's provenance, or...

This video explores the concept of the Anthropocene epoch, also known as the age of humans. The video discusses the negative impacts of human activity on the planet, including climate change, mass extinction, and environmental injustice....

A conversation with Brian Glass, Principal Investigator of the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) project at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

A conversation with Chris McKay, senior scientist at the Planetary Systems Branch of NASA's Ames Research Center who works on projects from Cassini to Curiosity.

In this episode streamed on Nov. 8, 2018, we talk with some brilliant wonder women of NASA about their research, what it’s like to work at NASA’s Ames Research Center and more!

This live-action video program is about deserts. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...