NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
NASA
The Mysterious Planet
By studying this mysterious planet, scientists could learn a great deal more about exoplanets, as well as the past, present, and possible future of our own. This video unveils this world and calls on current and future scientists to...
A Capella Science
Whole New Worlds: An Aladdin History of Exoplanets (Disney Parody)
The inspiring 30-year tale of the discovery of worlds outside our solar system, told in a medley of songs from Disney's "Aladdin"
NASA
Highlights From TESS's First Year
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern sky during its first year of science. TESS has now turned its...
NASA
NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed another series of critical testing milestones on its march to the launch pad. In recent acoustic and sine vibration tests, technicians and engineers exposed Webb’s spacecraft...
NASA
NASA confirms 5,000 Planets – and Counting
Using powerful telescopes, in space and on the ground, astronomers have now confirmed more than 5,000 exoplanets – planets beyond our solar system. But it’s just a fraction of the likely hundreds of billions of such planets in our Milky...
NASA
Comparing Visions of the Future to the Posters that Inspired It
Side-by-side views of the original JPL travel posters and their animated versions. Music: "Luminance" from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) and NASA/JPL-Caltech Chris Smith...
NASA
Ocean Worlds: The Search for Life
Life as we know it requires three ingredients: energy, organic molecules, and liquid water. Astrobiology, our search for life beyond Earth, is a search for planets, dwarf planets, and moons that harbor substantial liquid water. We call...
NASA
WFIRST Will See the Big Picture of the Universe
Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will function as Hubble’s wide-eyed cousin. While just as sensitive as Hubble's cameras, WFIRST's 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument will image a...
Astrum
What are the most extreme years in the universe?
Astrum investigates some examples of the longest and shortest years that we know of. The differences are mind-boggling!
Professor Dave Explains
Exoplanets: The Hunt for Habitable Worlds
Just as our own sun has many planets, other stars also have planets of their own. These are called exoplanets. The first of these was discovered in the 1990s, and since then, thousands of others have been found, thanks largely to the...
Professor Dave Explains
Exploring the TRAPPIST-1 System
We've briefly discussed exoplanets and some methods that we can use to detect them, but we haven't yet looked at any specific ones. You may have heard of the TRAPPIST-1 system that was discovered recently, and for good reason, it's a...
NASA
Hubble’s New View of Mars and Planets
The Hubble Space Telescope is more well known for its picturesque views of nebulae and galaxies, but it's also useful for studying our own planets, including Mars. Hubble imaged Mars on May 12, 2016 - ten days before Mars would be on the...
Bloomberg
Using the Sun to Image Alien Planets
Jan.18 -- A team at NASA’s JPL is proposing a mission that will let us see planets in other solar systems. Bloomberg’s Moonshots talks with the scientist behind what could be the most powerful telescope ever built, with a little help...
Curated Video
NASA's mission to find new life on exoplanets ++TRACKED++
LEADIN:
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is set to take off from Cape Canaveral next week (April 16 2018) in search of new worlds that aren't in our solar system.
TESS will focus on...
Bloomberg
Webb Telescope Is More Powerful Than Hubble, Says NASA
Gregory Robinson, James Webb telescope program director for NASA, discusses the completion, launch and mission of the new deep space telescope. Robinson says technological advancements have made it even more powerful than the Hubble...
Curated Video
Animation: What Are Exoplanets
Beyond our solar system, planets are waiting to be discovered.
These alien worlds orbit other stars. And astronomers are searching for an Earth twin that might support some form of life, perhaps microbes.
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Veritasium
Do Aliens Exist?
Many people believe in aliens, but what does the science say about life on another planet? Part of a larger series, an interesting video discusses the concept with people on the street and scientists, finding vastly different answers. It...
Khan Academy
Detectable Civilizations in our Galaxy 2
The idea of whether or not communication from other planets can be transmitted and received is discussed in this presentation. The various issues, such as relative stages of development, the ability to receive a transmission, and whether...