SciShow Kids
Let's Make the Solar System
Tag along with Jessi and Squeaks to learn how to make your very own model of the Solar System!
Bozeman Science
ESS1B - Earth and the Solar System
In this video Paul Andersen explains the parts of the Solar System; including the planets, dwarf planets, moons and asteroids. He explains how everything orbits around the Sun and how a proper understanding of this heliocentric model...
SciShow
Did a Planet Escape the Solar System?
Astronomers still aren't sure about how our solar system might have formed, but they have simulations to help them get closer to the answer!
ProTeachersVideo
Teaching Astronomy and Space: Models of the Solar System - Earth, Sun and Moon
Physics teacher and solar astronomer Simon Foster explores how we developed our understanding of the universe and uses our changing models of the solar system to explain how science works.
On location on top of a volcano in the Canary...
Curated Video
Is There a Hidden Massive Planet in Our Solar System?
New ReviewSomething heavy seems to be causing Uranus and Neptune to move in a different orbit than what we can currently account for with the celestial objects we know of. Is there a 9th planet? Does planet 9 exist? Is planet X real? What might it...
Curated Video
10 Things About The Solar System Your Teachers Never Told You
Remember those old space movies where spaceships had to maneuver through a bunch of asteroids scattered around and blocking the path of the ship? Well, that's not really true. The asteroid belt contains asteroids which are so far apart...
Science ABC
10 Things About The Solar System Your Teachers Never Told You
Remember those old space movies where spaceships had to maneuver through a bunch of asteroids scattered around and blocking the path of the ship? Well, that's not really true. The asteroid belt contains asteroids which are so far apart...
SciShow
These Icy Rocks Might Be from Another Solar System | SciShow News
New research suggests that Venus’ patterned crust might currently be more active than we thought! Astrophysicists have also modeled the orbits of mysterious objects between Jupiter and Neptune, and found that they could have come from...
SciShow
We May Have Found the First Exomoon! SciShow News
We’ve discovered what appears to be the first known moon outside of the solar system and new models of Europa’s surface predict the presence of ice blades!
SciShow
How the Movement of Other Planets Affects Earth — Yes, Really
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...
Professor Dave Explains
History of Astronomy Part 1: The Celestial Sphere and Early Observations
Now that we've learned about how the universe began, as well as the development of the Milky Way galaxy, the solar system, and the Earth, it's time to learn about the human beings that came to inhabit the Earth. Eventually, they began to...
National Geographic
Watch This Guy Build a Massive Solar System in the Desert | Short Film Showcase
The vastness of space is almost too mind-boggling for the human brain to comprehend. In order to accurately illustrate our place in the universe, one group of friends decided to build the first scale model of the solar system in seven...
National Geographic
Watch This Guy Build a Massive Solar System in the Desert | Short Film Showcase
The vastness of space is almost too mind-boggling for the human brain to comprehend. In order to accurately illustrate our place in the universe, one group of friends decided to build the first scale model of the solar system in seven...
Mazz Media
Solar System
This live-action video program is about the term solar system. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term solar system through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
NASA
The Search for Life
Are we alone in the universe? This is a fundamental question that intrigues us all. On September 21, 2016, NASA scientists and stakeholders came together at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for a presentation on the agency’s...
Curated Video
The Solar System Part 1| Astrophysics | Physics | FuseSchool
CREDITS Animation & Design: Joshua Thomas Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Alistair Haynes In this video we will begin to look at some of the key features that describe the parts our Solar System. Quite simply it is the name given to the...
Science Buddies
Make a Model to Explore the Distance from the Planets to the Sun
Do you find it hard to imagine the vastness of the Solar System? This video shows how to use strings to make a scale model of the distances from the planets to the Sun and helps gain a better understanding of interplanetary distances....
Curated Video
Historical Models
New ReviewThis video explains the history of geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens
It's been a long road to the discovery that Earth is not the center of the Solar System, the Milky Way, or the universe; great thinkers from Aristotle to Bruno have grappled with it for millennia. But if we aren't at the center of the...
Astrum
Going Beyond the Edge of Our Solar System
The journey of Voyager I and II beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Astrum
The Crater on Mercury That Defied Conventional Models: MESSENGER Images part 2
When something is as incredibly difficult to get to as Mercury, it is extremely tricky to study. Which is one of the reasons why in all of human history, there have only ever been 2 missions to Mercury, with just one more on the way....
PBS
Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
On July 4th 2016, the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around the planet Jupiter after leaving earth five years ago. The Juno probe will tell us what lies inside the mysterious gas giant and with this information we’ll better understand the...