Instructional Video11:59
SciShow

The Alien Storm That Ate Itself

12th - Higher Ed
From cyclones to snowstorms, Earth is home to some spectacular weather events. But they're nothing compared to what you can find on the other planets in our solar system. Magnetic tornadoes? Ammonia mushballs? Let's (not literally) dive...
Instructional Video6:28
SciShow

Is Our Solar System Missing Moons?

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video2:55
SciShow

The Only Moons That Trade Places

12th - Higher Ed
Saturn's moons Janus and Epimetheus were once thought to be the same moon. It turns out they're dance partners.
Instructional Video7:25
Be Smart

Ask Joe Stuff #4

12th - Higher Ed
You have questions, I have answers! In this edition of Ask Joe Stuff, you'll find out what the date really is according to Earth's age, why we get chills up our spine, what my favorite planet is, why hair grows (or doesn't), and why root...
Instructional Video5:00
Be Smart

Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?

12th - Higher Ed
Earth has seasons, but what about the rest of the planets in the solar system? Let’s take a tour from Mercury to Pluto and see what seasons would be like on all our planetary neighbors. Bring a sweater!
Instructional Video13:26
PBS

Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past

12th - Higher Ed
On July 4th 2016, the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around the planet Jupiter after leaving earth five years ago. The Juno probe will tell us what lies inside the mysterious gas giant and with this information we’ll better understand the...
Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

Why Are Saturn’s Rings Younger Than Saturn?

12th - Higher Ed
Saturn's rings are younger than Saturn, and the most spectacular sight in the Solar System is also disappearing. How do we know? By running our finger through some cosmic dust.
Instructional Video6:46
SciShow

Why Aliens Might Love Their Frozen Home

12th - Higher Ed
In the hunt for life beyond Earth, scientists shouldn't skip over frozen planets. In some cases, ice might actually help life evolve!
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

3 Freaky Things Explained: Bug Sex, Polar Vortex and Chain Fountain!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the latest developments in science, this week demystifying three freaky things in nature: the polar vortex, why some bugs are infertile, and how a chain can appear to defy gravity. You're welcome!
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

3 Freaky Things Explained: Bug Sex, Polar Vortex and Chain Fountain!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the latest developments in science, this week demystifying three freaky things in nature: the polar vortex, why some bugs are infertile, and how a chain can appear to defy gravity. You're welcome!
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

How Wiretapping Helped Transform Astronomy

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

Were the Planets Always in the Same Order?

12th - Higher Ed
Four rocky inner planets and four gaseous outer planets - makes sense, right? But when astronomers turned their eyes to planets beyond our star system they found out that many systems are set up differently. Why?
Instructional Video7:06
TED Talks

TED: What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:42
SciShow

Our Smelly Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
Sight, sound, and yes, taste, have all helped humanity better understand space, but what about smells? Scientists think we have a pretty good idea of what some places smell like, and decoding astronomical aromas can be a good way of...
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

What Saturn’s Rings Tell Us About Its Soupy Core

12th - Higher Ed
The insides of the our gas giant friend, Saturn, might be less of a mystery now that we’ve figured out how to use its rings to indicate its internal makeup. And the light emitted from some very old, very hungry black holes could be...
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

Our Galaxy Could Be Full of Exoplanets with Oceans | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Earlier this spring NASA announced a new research model that predicts that ocean worlds are far from rare, and our galaxy might be full of them. And a new study examines evidence that Pluto may have had an underground ocean all along!
Instructional Video4:42
Crash Course Kids

Gas Giants Weather

3rd - 8th
Last time, we learned that there is in fact weather on other planets. But those were the rocky planets, like Earth. What about the big Gas Giants? What's the weather like there? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a...
Instructional Video3:39
SciShow Kids

Explore Saturn's Rings

K - 5th
There's a lot more to Saturn's rings than just looking awesome! Find out why!
Instructional Video7:46
TED Talks

Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home

12th - Higher Ed
Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy a spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASA JPL's "Eyes on the Solar System" -- free-to-use software for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun...
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow

Water Weirdness Sweaty Comets, and Titan's Hidden Oceans

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

Something Is Creating and Removing Oxygen on Mars - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Oxygen levels in the Martian atmosphere are mysteriously inconsistent, and scientists don’t have a clear explanation for what’s behind the changes. Meanwhile, scientists DO have explanations for the tiger-like stripes on one of Saturn’s...
Instructional Video5:49
SciShow

There's an Interstellar Asteroid Hiding Near Jupiter

12th - Higher Ed
We may have found another interstellar asteroid and scientists have some new ideas about how Saturn's moons got their weird shapes.
Instructional Video6:20
SciShow

The Hardest We've Ever Pushed Matter

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have had to come up with some extreme ways to generate the extreme pressures needed to simulate the conditions at the cores of planets!