Instructional Video4:42
Curated Video

Jump From Space: What Happens If You Do A Space Jump?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jumping from space is considered to be quite a task. And with good reason! Because no one has ever done it, or even attempted it. Red bulls sponsored a high-altitude jump performed by Felix Baumgartner, and it was famously called a...
Podcast13:14
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 19. LCRD - The Dream | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In this second episode of an LCRD-focused season of The Invisible Network podcast, we take a look at the reasons NASA is embracing optical communications technologies and what challenges LCRD will overcome.
Instructional Video10:45
EarthEcho International

Water by Design: Exploring Innovative Solutions for Freshwater Resources

9th - 12th
The video explores the challenges and solutions related to managing freshwater resources in Southern California, where a severe drought has impacted millions of people. It showcases the use of NASA technology to predict water...
Instructional Video27:18
The Viral Fever

Cosmic Journeys: Birth of a Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
The video explores the mysteries of high energy astronomy, focusing on gamma ray bursts and their origins. It discusses the evolution of our understanding of the universe, from debates about the scale of the galaxy to the discovery of...
Instructional Video1:15
Next Animation Studio

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: scientists

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists say Ceres is an ocean world with brine under the surface after reviewing data from NASA’s Dawn orbiter, according to new studies published separately in Nature Astronomy and Geoscience.
Instructional Video0:37
Next Animation Studio

GRAIL mission: NASA twin probes to measure moon's gravity field

12th - Higher Ed
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, or GRAIL, consists of twin spacecraft in a polar orbit around the moon. GRAIL will map the moon's gravitational field by measuring changes in the distance between the two spacecraft...
Instructional Video4:25
NASA

Why Quantum? Why Now? NASA Celebrates World Quantum Day

K - 11th
April 14 marks the annual World Quantum Day, and NASA's Space Communications and Navigation program is excited to celebrate! Whether you know it or not, quantum physics touches our lives each day. Everything physical around us is made of...
Podcast13:35
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 11. Reflections | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
For billions of years, the Earth and the Moon have danced together. Since the Apollo era, scientists have used lasers — a technology then in its infancy — to measure their waltz. Lasers have since played increasingly important roles in...
Podcast19:58
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 09. Lobes | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Spacecraft near Earth have long relied on GPS signals for navigation, just as users on the ground might use their phones to navigate the highways. Farther away, navigation — and the math behind it — becomes a great deal more challenging.
Instructional Video7:08
Flipping Physics

Altitude of Geostationary Orbit (a special case of Geosynchronous Orbit)

12th - Higher Ed
Calculate the altitude of a satellite in geostationary orbit which is an orbit with the same 24 hour period as the Earth and always located directly over the same location on the equator. Geostationary orbit is a special case of...
Instructional Video2:32
Science360

Extreme Microbes : Extremophiles - Science Nation

12th - Higher Ed
Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible - from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets of Antarctica. These so-called, "extremophiles"...
Instructional Video1:18
Next Animation Studio

NASA renames its next-gen telescope after woman chief astronomer credited with launching the Hubble telescope

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has renamed its next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope after Nancy Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble.
Podcast6:52
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Power of Pink Provides NASA with Pressure Pictures: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Power of Pink Provides NASA with Pressure Pictures: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
Instructional Video0:44
Next Animation Studio

NASA scientists find evidence of liquid water on Mars, boosting hopes of finding life beyond Earth

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has confirmed that there is liquid water flowing on Mars, which is a potential breakthrough in the quest to search for life beyond Earth. According to NASA scientists, liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls on Mars, leaving...
Podcast2:29
NASA

‎Gravity Assist: Introducing Gravity Assist Season 4: Searching for Life

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Is there life beyond Earth? How did life get started on Earth anyway? This season of NASA’s Gravity Assist podcast is about the origins of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere.[scald=338003:full_width][scald=338003:full_width]
Instructional Video4:57
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Hurricane Structure

6th - 8th
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
Podcast21:51
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 16. Commercialization - Marketplace | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA is working with industry to nurture a space communications marketplace.
Podcast16:56
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 04. Automation | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the telephone switchboard’s earliest days, the late 1800s, operators served a limited number of customers within their own communities. As telephone use expanded, automation helped switchboards keep up. NASA is working on a similar...
Podcast7:50
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: NASA Conducts 'Out of Sight' Drone Tests in Nevada: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on October 19, 2016.
Podcast11:27
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 18. LCRD - The Launch | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Today, Tuesday, December 7, 2021, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 launched from Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s space coast. The spacecraft contains a revolutionary space communications mission, NASA's Laser...
Instructional Video4:56
Science360

Engineers investigate possible lingering impacts from Elk River chemical spill - Science Nation

12th - Higher Ed
In January, 2014, thousands of gallons of chemicals, including crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol, or MCHM, spilled into West Virginia's Elk River, near Charleston. The spill ultimately contaminated the local water supply and...
Podcast19:15
NASA

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 62, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Pre-K - Higher Ed
NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator Dave Israel discusses the dynamic power of laser communications technologies.
Instructional Video2:08
Next Animation Studio

NASA confirms presence of molecular water on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has for the first time confirmed the presence of molecular water on sunlit regions of the Moon, according to a study published in the latest issue of Nature Astronomy.
Instructional Video0:51
Next Animation Studio

NASA launches laser to scan Earth's polar ice caps

12th - Higher Ed
NASA says it plans to launch an advanced laser instrument which would be used to monitor our planet's melting polar ice.