Instructional Video3:44
SciShow

Where Does the Solar System End?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space explains how different experts define our the boundaries of our solar system and why it's way more complicated (and interesting) than it sounds.
Instructional Video6:34
Crash Course Kids

Seeing Stars

3rd - 8th
So you know what a star is, right? Well, if you don't, you should. We've talked about that big one in the sky a few times: The Sun! But there are a lot of bright dots in the night sky and not all of them are stars. Today, let's play a...
Instructional Video2:07
MinutePhysics

Why the Solar System Can Exist

12th - Higher Ed
If gravity is so attractive, why doesn't the earth just crash into the sun? Or the moon into the earth? The answer: Stable Orbits
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

A New Way to Find Planets!

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time, astronomers have detected the light coming from an exoplanet. SciShow Space News explains how they did it, and why it was so difficult in the first place.
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

3 Ways Exoplanets Rocked Planetary Science

12th - Higher Ed
Exoplanets have taught us a lot more about planets than our solar system could ever teach us, from what happens when they’re born, to what happens when their stars die.
Instructional Video5:16
Be Smart

Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
Asteroid mining sounds like something out of a bad space movie, but harvesting materials from space rocks might be our ticket to building space colonies or living on Mars.
Instructional Video4:42
SciShow

We Found Two Planets Using Artificial Intelligence!

12th - Higher Ed
Artificial Intelligence has helped astronomers discover 2 new planets in systems that we'd already looked at, and new theories about how Mars lost some of its water have surfaced.
Instructional Video4:43
SciShow

The Hottest Exoplanets in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
With exoplanets, often we want to know if they are Earth-like and whether they might host life, but we can also learn a lot from planets that are nothing like Earth.
Instructional Video10:55
Crash Course

Brown Dwarfs

12th - Higher Ed
While Jupiter is nowhere near massive enough to initiate fusion in its core, there are even more massive objects out there that fall just short of that achievement as well called brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, have a mass that places them...
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

Why Is Pluto Not A Planet?

12th - Higher Ed
Pluto's not a planet. We're sorry, but we think it's time you move on. If you've gone through all your breakup music and Meg Ryan movies, and you still can't get over it, then SciShow Space will get out the ice cream, cuddle up with you...
Instructional Video3:35
SciShow

What's It Like on ... Venus?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you on a tour of Venus, a world with such an extreme environment that you might call it "Earth's evil twin."
Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Kepler's Planetary Bonanza

12th - Higher Ed
You've know that the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered HUNDREDS of new planets outside our solar system -- but how does it find them? And how do scientists tell the real planets from the celestial fake-outs? It involves a lot of...
Instructional Video4:27
SciShow

3 Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist

12th - Higher Ed
The universe is a big place full of galaxies that we've only begun to study. SciShow Space presents 3 of the strangest ones we've found so far.
Instructional Video2:10
SciShow

Why Do Stars Twinkle?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow explains why stars do that twinkling that all the kids are singing about, and explains how astronomers can get around it to make observations, and why it can be kinda useful.
Instructional Video11:10
Crash Course

Distances

12th - Higher Ed
How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth, and from that the...
Instructional Video4:40
SciShow

How We Figured Out That Earth Goes Around the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the world believed that Earth was the center of the universe for a really long time. Then a few scientists decided to take a closer look.
Instructional Video4:21
Curated Video

Exploring Uranus and Neptune

12th - Higher Ed
Join SciShow Space as we complete our tour of the Solar System planets with the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

How Radioactivity Makes Planets Habitable | Space News

12th - Higher Ed
The perfect balance of radioactive elements inside planets like ours might make it habitable, and researchers are challenging some ideas about how Mars is losing its water.
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow Kids

What Is the Sun?

K - 5th
Squeaks can't sleep because the sun is too bright, and Sam the Bat stops by to talk about what makes the sun so special DCI: ESS1.A: Patterns of the motion of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, and predicted.
Instructional Video10:03
TED Talks

TED: Is life really that complex? | Hannah Fry

12th - Higher Ed
Can an algorithm forecast the site of the next riot? In this accessible talk, mathematician Hannah Fry shows how complex social behavior can be analyzed and perhaps predicted through analogies to natural phenomena, like the patterns of a...
Instructional Video4:19
SciShow

The James Webb Space Telescope Is Assembled! Finally! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We have some good news this week for all the James Webb fans out there, as well as a look a some creative chemistry that may help us find the first solid evidence of an exomoon!
Instructional Video4:24
SciShow Kids

Should We Go to Mars?

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks love pretending to be space explorers, visiting far-away planets! Did you know that, right now, there are scientists working on ways to send people to other planets in real life? And where better to start than our...
Instructional Video9:37
Crash Course

The Moon

12th - Higher Ed
Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation.
Instructional Video7:32
TED Talks

Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

12th - Higher Ed
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and...