Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week - Episode 10
Genes turn on, fluids go surfing, radioactivity spills from a cosmic collision, and an oceanic plate crashes the party at Earth’s mantle. It's your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all...
Curated Video
NASA | A Swift Tour of the Nearest Galaxies in UV Light
Astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic...
Physics Girl
How We’ll Find the Aliens in Our Solar System! | STELLAR
I got to visit two awesome upcoming NASA missions searching for life in our solar system! The Mars 2020 rover mission targeting the Jezero Crater and the Europa Clipper reconnaissance mission to explore one of Jupiter's moons due to...
Curated Video
We Found One of the Oldest Galaxies Ever!
Astronomers found a galaxy older than almost any we’ve ever seen before, and we have a new, faster method to use in our search for habitable planets.
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Our First Glimpse of a Newborn Supernova - SciShow News
A super bright flash in the sky might be the birth of a supernova remnant and it turns out there's more than one way to build a binary star system.
Curated Video
Why Is Neptune So Blue And 3 Other Mysteries an Orbiter Could Solve
Neptune's radius is almost four times larger than Earth's, its surface has super intense storms, and we barely know anything else about it. It is time to send another orbiter out there.
Curated Video
Why Everyone Was Watching Tabby's Star Last Weekend
Tabby's star is at it again. Could it be aliens this time!? Also, astronomers have discovered a planet with the density of styrofoam!
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Breaking News There’s an Earth-like Planet Next Door!
The rumors are true! There's an Earth-like planet orbiting our neighboring star!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent
Over the course of history, we've discovered hundreds of thousands of asteroids. But how do astronomers discover these bits of rock and metal? How many have they found? And how do they tell asteroids apart? Carrie Nugent shares the story...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Dark matter: How does it explain a star's speed? - Don Lincoln
All the stars in a spiral galaxy rotate around a center -- but to astronomers, the speed that each star travels wasn't making sense. Why didn't stars slow down toward the edges as expected? Don Lincoln explains how a mysterious force...
Curated Video
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 44, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Deputy Director of Astrophysics Jeff Volosin discusses the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
Curated Video
NASA | Laser Focus
ICESat-2's instrument, ATLAS, is designed to measure heights on Earth. ATLAS has three main tasks: transmitting a pattern of six laser beams, collecting the laser photons that return to the satellite after reflecting off Earth, and...
Physics Girl
The Most MYSTERIOUS Object in the Universe
Physics Girl astrophysics series - Brown Dwarfs are among the most recently observed objects in the universe. They have at MOST 8% the mass of the Sun. The lower mass boundary is not known! So they are halfway between stars and gas giant...
NASA
NASA | Hubble & Galaxy Evolution
Three astronomers explain how Hubble acts like a time machine by detecting which galaxies are moving toward and away from us.
Curated Video
NASA | The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) - Vintage Reissue
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. This video was reissued by NASA for COBE's 20th Anniversary.
Curated Video
Houston We Have a Podcast: High Flying
CJ Scott details the WB-57 aircraft, the unique imaging systems on board, and the teams that support operations. HWHAP Episode 220.
Curated Video
The Invisible Network: 21. LCRD - The Design: Ground | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
In this fourth episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the LCRD ground segment, which consists of infrastructure in Hawaii, California, and New Mexico.
Curated Video
The Goblin - Dwarf Planet Candidate
Learn about dwarf planets with the Dwarf Planet candidate The Goblin
Curated Video
The Big Bang Theory
This video explains the formation of the universe as described by the Big Bang theory.
Curated Video
Introduction to Astronomy
Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. We begin with answering a question: "What is astronomy?"
MinutePhysics
Why is it Dark at Night
Have you ever wondered why you look up and see a dark sky at night?
TED Talks
TED: How we'll find life on other planets | Aomawa Shields
Astronomer Aomawa Shields searches for clues that life might exist elsewhere in the universe by examining the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. When she isn't exploring the heavens, the classically trained actor (and TED Fellow) looks...
TED Talks
Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team's work...