Instructional Video10:04
Curated Video

This giant laser can simulate a planet’s core

9th - 11th
How do you study the innards of alien worlds? You just need the world’s largest laser. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos As astronomers...
Instructional Video11:28
Curated Video

How to find a planet you can’t see

9th - 11th
Tiny wobbles and faint twinkles that have led astronomers to nearly 5,000 new worlds. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos Pluto was...
Instructional Video9:57
Curated Video

Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?

9th - 11th
Solar geoengineering might help lower temps, but it’s a controversial approach. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos The climate change...
Instructional Video4:51
TED Talks

TED: The most Martian place on Earth | Armando Azua-Bustos

12th - Higher Ed
How can you study Mars without a spaceship? Head to the most Martian place on Earth -- the Atacama Desert in Chile. Astrobiologist Armando Azua-Bustos grew up in this vast, arid landscape and now studies the rare life forms that have...
Instructional Video2:39
MinuteEarth

The Problem With Concrete

12th - Higher Ed
Concrete is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon emissions because making its key ingredient - cement - chemically releases CO2, and because we burn fossil fuels to make it...
Instructional Video2:11
NASA

TESS, Spitzer Spot Potential Giant World Circling Tiny Star

3rd - 11th
An international team of astronomers has reported what may be the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a white dwarf, a dense leftover of a Sun-like star that’s only 40% bigger than Earth. The...
Instructional Video1:46
NASA

Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow

3rd - 11th
In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant...
Instructional Video11:13
Curated Video

Why the new space telescope looks so strange

9th - 11th
A NASA astrophysicist explains humanity’s big new toy Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos After 25 years and nearly $10 billion, the James...
Instructional Video43:05
Curated Video

Saturn's Perfect Hexagon | NASA's Unexplained Files (Full Episode)

6th - 11th
What could make a NASA astronaut report seeing a flying saucer in the skies above a US Air Force test range? How have the swirling gases of Saturn formed a perfect Hexagon that has hovered above the planet's pole for 30 years? Stream...
Instructional Video5:06
Curated Video

Crop Circles Decoded: What Science Has to Say

12th - Higher Ed
Crop circles decoded, and their secrets revealed. They are sometimes beautiful patterns in the middle of a field. They attract tourists from around the world. They have inspired conspiracy...
Instructional Video5:05
TED-Ed

3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist

6th - 12th
Take a journey through the universe to learn about three planets that are mysteries to scientists—because they shouldn't be able to exist! Class members watch a short video to learn about Kepler-78b, Kepler-10c, and HD 106906b,...
Instructional Video2:33
SciShow

Why Does Saturn Have Rings?

7th - 12th
Why do Saturn and the other gas giants have rings? Hank reveals the Roche limit as the cause, the distance within which gas planets would fail to hold together due to their own gravity. At this particular distance, orbiting materials...