Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

4 Awesome Future Space Missions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

We Detected Water Plumes on Europa... 20 Years Ago

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers found surprising new evidence hiding in data captured back in 1997, and we've discovered stars forming in a distant galaxy as early as 250 million years after the Big Bang.
Instructional Video4:12
SciShow

Asteroids, Exomoons, and a Crash on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin serves up the latest in space-science news, this week featuring developments in missions dedicated to sampling asteroids, detecting exomoons, and solving the mysteries of the moon.
Instructional Video28:24
SciShow

Genesis, IBEX, and Cassini: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Dan Reisenfeld from the University of Montana joins us this week to talk about his work with three different NASA missions (Genesis, IBEX, and Cassini), and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings along Ginger and Maui the Green Cheek Conures!
Instructional Video5:25
SciShow

Cassini’s Last Hurrah & Hints About Saturn’s Rings

12th - Higher Ed
Cassini is about to take its final dive into the rings of Saturn, and scientists are still debating the status of water on our moon.
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Do Exoplanets Have Rings?

12th - Higher Ed
Exorings are pretty elusive, but we’ve already found what might be the first set of exorings, and if we find more, we’ll have a treasure trove of new information.
Instructional Video10:39
TED Talks

TED: 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life | James Green

12th - Higher Ed
Is there life beyond earth? Join NASA's director of planetary science James Green for a survey of the places in our solar system that are most likely to harbor alien life.
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

Will there be a ring in Mars's future?

12th - Higher Ed
Will Mars have a ring around it? Hank Green explains in this episode of Scishow Space News!
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

Saturn's 'Death Star' and Hubble's Latest Masterpiece

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News takes you to the solar system's own Death Star -- Saturn's moon Mimas, where something mysterious is going on. Plus, we share a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope that holds a few surprises!
Instructional Video3:39
Curated Video

Where Did the Moon Come From?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you to the moon! Learn about the competing theories about how Earth's closest neighbor formed.
Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

We Just Landed on the Far Side of the Moon for the First Time! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The new year is off to a great start for space exploration! New Horizons has passed the farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, and China put a lander on the dark side of the Moon!
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

The First Results from NASA's InSight Lander! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We finally have some results from the InSight lander’s measurements on Mars, and the Japanese Space Agency is moving forward with a probe that will explore Mars’s moons.
Instructional Video4:22
SciShow

Water on Ganymede, and NASA Needs Your Help!

12th - Higher Ed
Which is a bigger deal to you? The discovery that there's probably more water on Jupiter's moon Ganymede than all the oceans on Earth? Or the fact that you can now help NASA find asteroids? Learn about both, then decide for yourself!
Instructional Video5:50
SciShow

Cassini's Dangerous Dives Through Saturn's Rings

12th - Higher Ed
The Cassini probe is getting more dangerous assignments as its mission nears its end, and the sun's surface may be simpler than we once thought.
Instructional Video3:33
SciShow

Take a Trip Through Space!

12th - Higher Ed
Take a trip through our star area, using only the ten hundred most used words, inspired by Randall Munroe of XKCD.
Instructional Video6:15
SciShow

The Biggest Moon Discoveries of the Last Decade

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been teaching us about the moon for a decade now, and it's still going! What we’re learning from it will make space exploration and future moon missions much easier for future astronauts.
Instructional Video24:42
SciShow

One-on-One Conversation with New Horizons Scientist

12th - Higher Ed
Hank interviews Dr. Alex Harrison Parker about New Horizons' Pluto flyby, what's next for the probe, and what we can anticipate learning about the solar system's history!
Instructional Video12:05
Crash Course

Uranus & Neptune

12th - Higher Ed
Today we’re rounding out our planetary tour with ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Both have small rocky cores, thick mantles of ammonia, water, and methane, and atmospheres that make them look greenish and blue. Uranus has a truly weird...
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

The Ingredients for Life in Space

12th - Higher Ed
Hank explains the latest developments in space research and the search for life, including the discovery that amino acids may be more common than we thought throughout the solar system, and the latest findings from the Mars Curiosity rover.
Instructional Video10:05
MinuteEarth

MinuteEarth Explains: Stuff That...Isn’t

12th - Higher Ed
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we find out that lots of what we thought we knew about the world around us isn’t quite right.
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

How Saturn's Moons Could Help Us Live in Space

12th - Higher Ed
As we continue our search for life out in the universe, it's important that we leave no stone, or moon, unturned.
Instructional Video5:40
SciShow

What Knocked Over Uranus And Two Other Mysteries?

12th - Higher Ed
The most common type of exoplanets might be worlds like our ice giant, Uranus. Understanding it could be key to the history of planets all over the galaxy.
Instructional Video5:00
SciShow

The Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2022 | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
2022 is looking like a great year for space exploration! Let's dig into three of the missions that we're really excited to watch unfold!