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8 New Earth-Like Planets Discovered!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space starts the year off with a bang, and the discovery of 8 Earth-like planets, two of which may be the most promising candidates yet for harboring life.
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How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?

12th - Higher Ed
It's virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that.
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Dust Could Turn Extreme Planets Habitable | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Some tidally-locked exoplanets might actually be more habitable than astronomers initially thought, and we have some ideas about how Peter Pan disks can last so much longer than other protoplanetary disks.
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The Mars Lander Crash: What Went Wrong?

12th - Higher Ed
Schiaparelli crashing into Mars wasn't exactly what the Exomars mission scientists were hoping for, but we're still going to get some useful information from the little probe's descent. And scientists have observed two of the brightest...
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Buzzed By a Weird Blue Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon got closer than it will be until 2093, and the reflecting light has astronomers puzzled, and the relationship between black holes and magnetic fields is now a little more clear.
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The Legendary Arecibo Radiotelescope

12th - Higher Ed
All telescopes work by gathering light from the stars, but one held the crown for square footage for collecting that light for 53 years. The amazing Arecibo.
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The Mysterious Origins of Our Galaxy's Fastest Stars

12th - Higher Ed
A new paper that borrows old astrological data from the Voyager 2 probe has used brand-new computer simulations to find some new weird data about Uranus’s magnetic field. Another paper has new information about our galaxy’s fastest...
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Building Robot Astronauts

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has put out the challenge: can YOU build software for a space robot? Along with that warm fuzzy feeling that you've helped humanity reach for the stars, a cash prize will be awarded to the winners.
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Secret' Space Plane, and Curiosity's New Rock

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin delivers the latest developments from around the universe, including Curiosity's latest drill, the low-down on that "secret" space plane, and the dimmest galaxy ever detected.
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The Great Attractor: A Truly Massive Mystery

12th - Higher Ed
There's something out there SO massive that it's pulling on every object within hundreds of millions of light years. But we can't see it! So what DO we know? Today on SciShow Space, Reid Reimers tells us more about the Great Attractor.
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The Truth About the Sun's 'Twin' and the Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers published a paper last month, exploring the possibility that our sun might have once had a stellar twin! Could our solar system have once been a binary, or even a multi-star system?
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The Oldest, Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
Hank reports on the discovery by NASA scientists of the most distant, oldest galaxy ever observed.
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The Surprising Secrets of Destroyed Exoplanets - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are learning new things by looking at the remains of exoplanets, NASA has unveiled a new spacesuit design, and engineers fixed a problem from one hundred million kilometers away.
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Space Superlatives of 2020!

12th - Higher Ed
2020 wasn't ALL bad news. This year scientists found ludicrously fast stars, ancient galaxy clusters, and developed a camera that could change how we study the night sky.
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We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
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When Athletes Dope ... & Einstein FTW

12th - Higher Ed
This week's SciShow news has Hank bringing us a primer on the science behind various illegal and illicit ways in which athletes "improve" their bodies, proof of general relativity that we can actually see, and a new way to measure how...
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Forecasting the Weather...on the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
The sun is beginning a new weather cycle, causing debate among scientists about how intense things are going to get, and elsewhere, scientists are looking into just how fluid our early universe was.
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China's Almost Ready to Build Their Space Station

12th - Higher Ed
The International Space Station might be getting a new neighbor because China has big plans for their future in space!!
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What Knocked Over Uranus And Two Other Mysteries?

12th - Higher Ed
The most common type of exoplanets might be worlds like our ice giant, Uranus. Understanding it could be key to the history of planets all over the galaxy.
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Launching ExoMars!

12th - Higher Ed
ExoMars 2016 is about to launch, and The Arecibo Observatory is picking up some mysterious signals this week on SciShow Space News!
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Two Decades Later, We Know Why the Sun Is a Lava Lamp

12th - Higher Ed
In 1999, scientists discovered something that took over 20 years to solve. Why do solar flares move like a lava lamp?
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That’s Not a Black Hole, It’s a Vampire

12th - Higher Ed
What was once thought to be a black hole might in fact be a star that feeds on its own kind!
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We Found Evidence of a Brand-New Particle | Space News

12th - Higher Ed
X-rays leaking from dead stars could breathe new life into a hypothetical particle theory, plus an ancient Titanic force may have helped twist Saturn’s axis.
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Why This Galaxy Gets TWO Black Holes

12th - Higher Ed
There’s a massive black hole next door that appears far too big for its host galaxy! And in another galaxy, TWO supermassive black holes formed, giving us a glimpse at a true rarity in astronomy!