Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

How Radioactivity Makes Planets Habitable | Space News

12th - Higher Ed
The perfect balance of radioactive elements inside planets like ours might make it habitable, and researchers are challenging some ideas about how Mars is losing its water.
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

Why Is Pluto Not A Planet?

12th - Higher Ed
Pluto's not a planet. We're sorry, but we think it's time you move on. If you've gone through all your breakup music and Meg Ryan movies, and you still can't get over it, then SciShow Space will get out the ice cream, cuddle up with you...
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

A New Way to Find Planets!

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time, astronomers have detected the light coming from an exoplanet. SciShow Space News explains how they did it, and why it was so difficult in the first place.
Instructional Video4:24
SciShow

A Dying Hot Jupiter and The Birth of Carbon Planets

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

3 Medical Breakthroughs from the International Space Station

12th - Higher Ed
Since November of 2000, there have always been people on board the International Space Station. That’s nearly 20 straight years of humans living in space! But the ISS isn’t just the world’s coolest playground, it’s also a...
Instructional Video4:17
SciShow

We Found a Planet That Orbits Three Stars..Maybe?

12th - Higher Ed
New simulations of a triple-star system in the constellation Orion suggest that a planet might be orbiting three stars, which could drastically increase the amount of the solar systems we believe are out there forming planets! And the...
Instructional Video2:42
MinutePhysics

How Do We Know What Air is Like on Other Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
How do we know what the air is like on planets we haven't visited? This video explains how to see air from 150 light years away. Thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project at the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting...
Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Brown Dwarfs Space’s Strangely Important Oddballs

12th - Higher Ed
You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the...
Instructional Video6:01
SciShow

How the Movement of Other Planets Affects Earth — Yes, Really

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have found at least three cycles in nature that can be traced back to the alignment of the planets. And while they won’t tell you anything about your love life or personality, by studying them, we can learn about our planet’s...
Instructional Video3:44
SciShow

Two New Planets Discovered?

12th - Higher Ed
Click here to find out more about "New Planets Found!" and "SUPER EARTH Orbiting Our Sun!". Ignore the clickbait...Hank Green explains what might have been found in this episode of SciShow Space.
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

More New Earth-like Planets Nearby!

12th - Higher Ed
Between the new, potentially Earth-like planets, organic molecules on Ceres, and SpaceX's successful launch, it's been quite a week in space!
Instructional Video4:47
SciShow

Pluto: Still Not A Planet

12th - Higher Ed
The ESA is working on a 'fresh-squeezed' spacecraft that will explore Jupiter's moons, and the New Horizons team makes a case for Pluto (and many others)!
Instructional Video4:43
SciShow

The Oldest Planet Ever Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
We've only found one planet in a globular cluster, where gravitational interactions should usually rip baby planets apart, but that's not all that excites astronomers about PSR 1620-26 b.
Instructional Video5:31
SciShow

A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist.
Instructional Video4:47
SciShow

They're Calling It: The Forbidden Planet

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered a planet that, for its size, is in a very strange place around it’s star! And other scientists, inspired by comets, have come up with a new way to potentially make breathable oxygen for people exploring Mars in the future.
Instructional Video5:43
SciShow

Could We Actually Detect Life on Other Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
There’s probably life somewhere besides Earth, but all the exoplanets are so far away we may never see their surfaces in detail or intercept a clear radio signal from them. How do we determine if a distant planet has life?
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 Video5:39
SciShow

Are There Planets More Habitable Than Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
Earth probably isn’t the best place in the universe. It turns out there might be even better places to live that are even more suitable for life: superhabitable planets.
Instructional Video5:00
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space | Fabio Pacucci

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sending rockets into space requires sacrificing expensive equipment, burning massive amounts of fuel, and risking potential catastrophe. So in the space race of the 21st century, some engineers are abandoning rockets for something more...
Instructional Video4:01
SciShow

The Stardust Mission: Collecting Comet Dust in Space

12th - Higher Ed
Around 20 years ago NASA launched a spacecraft to study the comet Wild-2. What it brought back would cause scientists to wonder whether the building blocks of life could have arrived at Earth on a comet.
Instructional Video2:36
Curated Video

Dwarf Planet Song | Space Explained by KLT!

Pre-K - 8th
Learn about the 5 dwarf planets -- Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris -- with this space science song by KLT!
Instructional Video4:41
Science ABC

Fermi Paradox Explained: If There Are TRILLIONS of Planets in Space, Why Hasn’t Anyone Contacted Us?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Fermi Paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life in the universe and the lack of evidence or contact with such civilizations. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, the paradox...
Instructional Video5:42
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: When is a pandemic over?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Consider the following scenario: a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infects humans for the first time. It spreads rapidly worldwide, and the WHO declares a pandemic. The death toll starts to rise and everyone is...
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow Kids

The Farthest We’ve Ever Gone in Space

K - 5th
Humans have never visited another planet, but we can send special spacecraft called probes to visit them for us! One of those probes, called Voyager 1, has gone deeper into space than any other, and it's sent us some amazing pictures...

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