Instructional Video6:01
SciShow

NASA's Planetary Protection Job, and a Brand New Way to Study Neutrinos

12th - Higher Ed
The Planetary Protection Office is hiring and we've found a much easier way to study neutrinos.
Instructional Video4:44
SciShow

Trojan Asteroids: Jupiter's Prisoners

12th - Higher Ed
Jupiter has a bunch of asteroids that are trapped in two specific points in its orbit!
Instructional Video6:04
SciShow

3 Times We Captured Physical Pieces of the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
It's tricky to study the particles of our Sun because Earth’s magnetic field deflects them, but scientists have found ways to do it! They're helping us understand things like the Sun’s origin, what it's made of, and how it might affect...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve done a surprising amount of exploration on Mars, from its atmosphere, to its surface, and miles deep into its canyons. But mapping its insides has been a quandary that we hadn’t been able to solve until last week!
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor

12th - Higher Ed
Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That's (kind of) what's hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some...
Instructional Video5:00
SciShow

Keeping the Fungus Among Us in Space

12th - Higher Ed
Developing new methods for survival in space is a constant and ever-evolving process, and a well known Earthly organism has the potential for multiple applications within space’s unforgiving environment!
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

Snowstorms on Mars!

12th - Higher Ed
New research looks into how snow falls on Mars, and scientists have been looking into other things falling from the sky onto planets: diamonds!
Instructional Video5:55
SciShow

Why It's So Hard to Land on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve sent more spacecraft to Mars than any other planet, but around half of the probes that have ever attempted to explore Mars have either crashed or disappeared.
Instructional Video8:44
PBS

Will Mars or Venus Kill You First?

12th - Higher Ed
Humans have been talking about space colonization for quite some time, but our neighboring planets are not exactly the most hospitable places. If we are ever going to be successful, we should probably figure out where we could reasonably...
Instructional Video3:42
SciShow

3D Printing in Space, and When Venus Meets Mars

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News gives you the latest from a batch of experiments on the Space Station, a new mission to forecast space weather, and a guide to this year's conjunction of Mars and Venus!
Instructional Video4:51
SciShow

SpaceX Reused a Rocket!

12th - Higher Ed
This week SpaceX accomplished a first in the history of spaceflight: They reused a rocket big enough to send things into orbit!
Instructional Video19:06
TED Talks

TED: A futuristic vision of the age of holograms | Alex Kipman

12th - Higher Ed
explore a speculative digital world without screens in this fanciful demo, a mix of near reality and far-future possibility. Wearing the HoloLens headset, Alex Kipman demos his vision for bringing 3D holograms into the real world,...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

Who Owns Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Several companies are already working on plans to mine space objects, but who owns what in space?
Instructional Video5:04
SciShow

Mars Express: Triumph From Disaster

12th - Higher Ed
Mars Express, one of the longest-running planetary probes ever made, was only intended to last for about two Earth years, but it's still going at 17! And it's taught us an unbelievable amount, including everything from studying its...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

Why Mars Rovers Don't Study Water

12th - Higher Ed
Rovers like Curiosity search for life on Mars using rock and soil samples, but why don't they examine liquid or frozen water?
Instructional Video3:04
SciShow

The Curiosity Rover Landing

12th - Higher Ed
Landing will take place the night of August 5th, 1:30 AM eastern, 10:30 pm pacific, and 6:30 AM GMT (August 6th.) The Mars Science Laboratory or Curiosity Rover is the largest payload ever delivered to the surface of a planet and it has...
Instructional Video6:05
SciShow

A New Binary Asteroid (That's Also a Comet!)

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers discovered something cool about an object in the asteroid belt (2006 VW139/288P), and the European Space Agency is conducting a bed rest study that could help us get on our way to Mars.
Instructional Video13:42
TED Talks

TED: What a planet needs to sustain life | Dave Brain

12th - Higher Ed
Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right, says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why? In this pleasantly humorous talk, Brain explores the fascinating science behind what it takes for a planet to host life -- and why...
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

Will the Opportunity Rover Survive This Dust Storm?

12th - Higher Ed
The global dust storm on Mars is threatening the Opportunity rover and the wind on Venus might be changing the length of its days.
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

"Abundant Water" on Mars, and Mongols Rule!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow news Hank explains what Curiosity has found, . . .water on Mars!
Instructional Video7:25
PBS

Should the First Mars Mission Be All Women?

12th - Higher Ed
Okay, going to Mars is going to be expensive. Not only that, but who we choose to pick on that trip also needs to have the statistically lowest chance of perishing. So it might be the case that our best scenario is all female crew!
Instructional Video3:52
SciShow

Ingredients for Life On a Comet, and Mars's Close-Up

12th - Higher Ed
How did earth get the ingredients for life? A new discovery from Comet 67P might hold some answers. And learn where to find Mars in the night sky from 75 million kilometers away.
Instructional Video6:48
SciShow

Space News From The Future!

12th - Higher Ed
Today Hank uses his patented prognosticating abilities to tell you about some space news events to watch out for in 2013. What one thing is the Curiosity rover going to spend most of the year doing? Why are we going back to the moon? And...
Instructional Video4:14
SciShow

3 Awesome Discoveries Made by Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
Happy birthday, Curiosity! Michael Aranda and SciShow News celebrate the first anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory landing on Mars with 3 awesome discoveries that the universe's coolest rover has made so far. Hints: they involve...