NASA
Gravity Assist: These Space Rocks Have Seen It All, with Neyda Abreu
How do we know if a rock came from the Moon, Mars, or an asteroid? Planetary scientist Neyda Abreu has looked inside all kinds of meteorites to understand where they came from and what’s inside them. She also traveled to Antarctica to...
NASA
Gravity Assist: The Bright Spot of the Asteroid Belt, with Britney Schmidt
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is a mysterious dwarf planet called Ceres. Its surface is dark and muddy, but has hundreds of patches of bright material.
Astrum
What has NASA's OSIRIS-REx discovered around the asteroid Bennu?
NASA's OSIRIS-REx has now been orbiting the asteroid Bennu for a year already, but what has it discovered so far?
NASA
NASA Team Explores Using LISA Pathfinder as a 'Comet Crumb' Detector
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space-time called...
Vlogbrothers
They Say it Gets Colder
The thing to remember here is that finding life on another planet tells us one of very two things...and we will be able to figure out which thing pretty quickly. Either: 1. The life will contain clear signals that it is related to life...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Macroeconomic Hubris
In part 2 of INET's interview with John Kay, he says that unlike with the solar system, it's impossible to know all the laws and principles that govern economic systems
Next Animation Studio
New space telescope shows alien planet’s bizarre behavior
Thanks to the ESA’s Cheops space telescope, scientists can now see the strange features of exoplanet WASP-189b and its blue star
Astrum
4 days of Australia burning | 4K view from space
View from space of the Australian bushfires, from the December 30th 2019 to January 2nd 2020. Based on data from JAXA / JMA / Himawari.
NASA
NASA | Asteroid Bennu's Journey
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years, Asteroid Bennu...
NASA
Einstein Ring Spotted by Hubble
This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a distant galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. It is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered. This object’s unusual shape is the result of...
Curated Video
Asteroids: Small Rocks with Big Potential Dangers
In this video, we explore the fascinating world of asteroids - small, rocky masses that orbit the sun. While they are too small to be called planets, asteroids can still pose a threat to Earth. Scientists study asteroids to learn about...
NASA
Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA’s Perseverance Rover
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region. Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley points out...
Amor Sciendi
Melancholia I: Astrology, Medicine, and Magic Squares
Here we discuss the role of Astrology in Renaissance Medicine while looking at Albrecht Durer's famous print from 1514. The plate can be found in the Staatliche Kunsthalle gallery in Karlsruhe Germany.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Detector Scans the Universe in Hawaiian Telescope Camera SCUBA-2
SCUBA-2, the world's largest submillimeter camera—based on superconducting technology designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—is now ready to scan the universe, including faint and faraway parts never seen...
Astrum
What did NASA's Dawn discover on Ceres?
NASA's Dawn mission finished in 2017. What did it discover while in orbit around Ceres?
NASA
Kepler Stares at Neptune
During its K2 campaign, NASA's Kepler spacecraft observed the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. Kepler detected small changes in Neptune's brightness caused by the planet's daily rotation, the movement of clouds, and even...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Formation Time of Mega Basins on Mars: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on April 26, 2017.
Curated Video
Use the Morph Animation Effect in PowerPoint
The Morph animation or transition effect is an incredibly powerful and useful feature now available in Microsoft PowerPoint if you are an Office 365 subscriber. In this tutorial I show you a quick and simple presentation that was put...
Next Animation Studio
NASA’s TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet
NASA’s ‘TESS’ mission has found a possible Earth-sized habitable planet.
Next Animation Studio
B Centauri: Scientists find planet where no planet should be
Scientists found a giant planet 325 light years away, but its very existence proves there’s something wrong with science.
Astrum
What Makes These Craters On The Moon So Unusual?
The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's findings answers some questions about the Moon's unsolved mysteries.
NASA
Ten Mysteries of Venus
The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But was it always that way? Could Venus...