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NASA's Planetary Protection Job, and a Brand New Way to Study Neutrinos
The Planetary Protection Office is hiring and we've found a much easier way to study neutrinos.
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Trojan Asteroids: Jupiter's Prisoners
Jupiter has a bunch of asteroids that are trapped in two specific points in its orbit!
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3 Times We Captured Physical Pieces of the Sun
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...
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The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior
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!
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Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor
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...
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Keeping the Fungus Among Us in Space
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!
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Snowstorms on Mars!
New research looks into how snow falls on Mars, and scientists have been looking into other things falling from the sky onto planets: diamonds!
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Why It's So Hard to Land on Mars
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.
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Will Mars or Venus Kill You First?
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...
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3D Printing in Space, and When Venus Meets Mars
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!
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SpaceX Reused a Rocket!
This week SpaceX accomplished a first in the history of spaceflight: They reused a rocket big enough to send things into orbit!
TED Talks
TED: A futuristic vision of the age of holograms | Alex Kipman
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,...
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Who Owns Space?
Several companies are already working on plans to mine space objects, but who owns what in space?
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Mars Express: Triumph From Disaster
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...
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Why Mars Rovers Don't Study Water
Rovers like Curiosity search for life on Mars using rock and soil samples, but why don't they examine liquid or frozen water?
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The Curiosity Rover Landing
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...
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A New Binary Asteroid (That's Also a Comet!)
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.
TED Talks
TED: What a planet needs to sustain life | Dave Brain
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...
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Will the Opportunity Rover Survive This Dust Storm?
The global dust storm on Mars is threatening the Opportunity rover and the wind on Venus might be changing the length of its days.
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"Abundant Water" on Mars, and Mongols Rule!
This week on SciShow news Hank explains what Curiosity has found, . . .water on Mars!
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Should the First Mars Mission Be All Women?
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!
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Ingredients for Life On a Comet, and Mars's Close-Up
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.
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Space News From The Future!
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...
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3 Awesome Discoveries Made by Curiosity
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...