SciShow
Where Did the Moon Come From?
SciShow Space takes you to the moon! Learn about the competing theories about how Earth's closest neighbor formed.
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Earth’s other moons
You're familiar with the Moon, but it's not only our moon, depending on your point of view.
SciShow
Is Our Solar System Missing Moons?
You might be pretty confident that when a moon is there it’s there to stay, but that’s not always the case. Moons may have a history of disappearing.
SciShow
The Only Moons That Trade Places
Saturn's moons Janus and Epimetheus were once thought to be the same moon. It turns out they're dance partners.
PBS
The NEW SCIENCE of Moon Formation
Einstein once asked whether “the moon exists only when I look at it?". It was rhetorical objection to the idea that measurement in quantum mechanics causes reality to become real. But there was a time when the moon didn’t exist, and then...
SciShow
3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure
3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure
SciShow
Earth Has Another Magnetic Field
You probably know about the geomagnetic field that protects the earth from solar storms and radiation. But precision satellites have measured ANOTHER magnetic field coming from Earth, and its signals might hold the key to searching for...
SciShow
How Wiretapping Helped Transform Astronomy
Early telegraph operators and WWI spies picked up some weird noises on radio waves. As it turned out, they were actually listening to plasma waves in Earth’s magnetic field lines!
TED Talks
TED: What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle
NASA's Dragonfly -- a robotic rotorcraft-lander that's designed to hop across the surface of an extraterrestrial body -- is set to voyage deep into the solar system to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2026. Planetary scientist...
Crash Course
The Oort Cloud
Now that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system....
TED Talks
TED: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones
Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision -- and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns about surgery and medical care with a simple...
SciShow
Io's Underground Magma Ocean
There are a few theories that would suggest Jupiter's moon IO has an underground magma ocean. Hank Green explains in this episode of SciShow Space!
SciShow Kids
Explore Saturn's Rings
There's a lot more to Saturn's rings than just looking awesome! Find out why!
SciShow
The Coolest Things We Didn't Know About Pluto Two Years Ago
On July 14, 2015, New Horizons flew by Pluto. Scientists have used the data from the mission so far to uncover active geology, an enormous canyon, a unique case of chemical coloration, and more. What else might we discover as we venture...
SciShow
New Rovers: A Robot Eel and a Submarine!
NASA's looking to send a giant robotic space eel to explore Europa, and a submarine to Titan. Let's go for a swim!
SciShow
Water Weirdness Sweaty Comets, and Titan's Hidden Oceans
SciShow News gives you some wet and weird developments from around the solar system, including new insights about what liquid lurks under the surface of Titan, and a sweaty comet that's been spotted on its way toward the sun.
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There's an Interstellar Asteroid Hiding Near Jupiter
We may have found another interstellar asteroid and scientists have some new ideas about how Saturn's moons got their weird shapes.
SciShow
Weird Names Around the Solar System
Not all of the objects in the solar system are named after Greek and Roman gods -- some are named after literary figures, movie stars, and don't get us started on what people think Earth is really called.
MinuteEarth
Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken (Collab. w/ MinutePhysics)
It’s becoming harder and harder to categorize moons as moons. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Moon: a natural satellite of a satellite of a star. Satellite: A celestial...
SciShow
Life on a Donut Planet
We're used to talking about planets as spherical objects, but a donut-shaped planet is theoretically possible. What would life be like on one of these?
MinutePhysics
How Perspective Shapes Reality
This video is about how the way we describe the world can influence the way we perceive it. In particular, with regards to Bohmian mechanics, Schrodinger wave functions, Feynman path integrals, and Galilean moons attached to Jupiter by...