Instructional Video15:00
PBS

The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

12th - Higher Ed
I’m going to tell you about the craziest proposal for an astrophysics mission that has a good chance of actually happening. A train of spacecraft sailing the sun’s light to a magical point out there in space where the Sun’s own gravity...
Instructional Video9:57
SciShow

Most Planets Don't Orbit Stars!?

12th - Higher Ed
Hunting for rogue planets is like hunting for an invisible needle in a haystack. But we're getting a much clearer view thanks to gravitational microlensing surveys. And it looks like there are a LOT more of them out there than we thought.
Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

What Are These Weird Rings In Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Over the past few years, astronomers have discovered their own kind of UFO called Odd Radio Circles, aka ORCs. They're a little too round, and a little too invisible at non-radio wavelengths, to immediately know what they are and what's...
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 Video3:14
SciShow

Cloudy With A Chance Of Aliens: How We Look for Extraterrestrial Life

12th - Higher Ed
What do astronomers look for when they study exoplanets for signs of alien life? Hank explains how space telescopes are already yielding tantalizing clues of what other worlds might hold -- including water! -- and how the next generation...
Instructional Video6:03
SciShow

Astronomy’s Unsung Hero is a Plain Ol’ Aluminum Ball

12th - Higher Ed
In 1965, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory saw their Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 (LCS-1) launched into Earth orbit. It was an empty aluminum sphere and couldn't do any science of its own. But the world's most boring disco ball has played a huge...
Instructional Video6:11
SciShow

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...
Instructional Video2:59
SciShow

Earth Has Another Magnetic Field

12th - Higher Ed
You probably know about the geomagnetic field that protects the earth from solar storms and radiation. But precision satellites have measured ANOTHER magnetic field coming from Earth, and its signals might hold the key to searching for...
Instructional Video9:16
SciShow

The Strange Scourge of Light Pollution

12th - Higher Ed
Light pollution -- it's not just the bane of light sleepers and frustrated astronomers. It also is tinkering with the biological cycles of all kinds of living things, including us! SciShow takes you behind the glare to understand the...
Instructional Video20:05
SciShow

5 Scientists Too Smart for Their Time

12th - Higher Ed
You often hear of brilliant scientific discoveries that took decades to become recognized, often by scientists too smart for their time! Join Hank and look back on a few of our episodes about scientists who deserve a little more...
Instructional Video6:08
SciShow

More on Mating & Monogamy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank clarifies the misconceptions about Chagus disease, discusses a couple of interesting celestial events - one that happened in the past and one that will happen in the distant future, and sheds more light on the benefits of sexual...
Instructional Video10:19
SciShow

Let's Go To Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Hank discusses the challenges involved in manned space travel to Mars, and sends us a message from his 17-year-old self.
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

NASA's new frontier, and the Trouble with "Gravity"

12th - Higher Ed
Hank describes how astronomers used a technique called gravitational lensing to find the most distant galaxy ever detected -- and how NASA is embarking on a new program to use this same technique to peer deeper into space than ever...
Instructional Video9:15
SciShow

Did We Find Longitude Thanks To A...Clock?

12th - Higher Ed
The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss. Until they devised a competition....
Instructional Video7:01
SciShow

When The Universe Will End

12th - Higher Ed
Hank serves up a buffet of news items that includes an approximate date for the end of everything, scientific proof that when it comes to sex bigger IS better, and a look behind how the London Olympics are going green. Bon appetit!
Instructional Video4:55
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The battle that formed the universe | Fabio Pacucci

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It's time for the biggest battle in the Universe: the Big Bang. In one corner is gravity— the force that brings all matter together. In the other is pressure— the force that can push matter away. Over the next several hundred thousand...
Instructional Video7:24
SciShow Kids

What Was the Big Bang and Other Space Questions Answered! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Sam the Bat team up to answer your questions about space, like: How was the universe created?
Instructional Video6:01
TED Talks

TED: What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe | Jessie Christiansen

12th - Higher Ed
What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen has helped find thousands of them (and counting), and the variety is more wonderful and wild than you might imagine. She shares details...
Instructional Video26:59
TED Talks

TED: The marvels and mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake

12th - Higher Ed
From favorite moons to the search for alien life, astronomer Heidi Hammel discusses the latest in astronomy and the breakthrough innovations behind her work with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. In conversation with science journalist...
News Clip2:39
Curated Video

USA: NASA GAMMA RAYS DISCOVERY

Higher Ed
English/Nat NASA scientists have discovered a new class of gamma ray sources in the Milky Way galaxy. Gamma rays, although invisible to the human eye, are the most powerful form of light - more than a hundred million times more powerful...
News Clip3:09
Curated Video

NASA scientists hold presser about successful Mars rover landing

Higher Ed
1. Wide shot of NASA press conference 2. Reporters at conference 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator: "We now know with great certainty that we are at the place where we wanted to be at Gusev crater. There is a...
News Clip1:54
Curated Video

How to grow an atmosphere on Mars fit for people

Higher Ed
SHOTLIST: San Francisco, CA USA (Recent) 1. Movie Excerpts: Scenes from ''Total Recall'' 2. Still Photo: PAN L: Shots from Mars rover 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chris McKay, NASA Planetary Scientist 4.LS: WS: Busy highway 5. WS: Smoke...
News Clip1:44
Curated Video

Female teacher to go into space

Higher Ed
AP Television 1. Wide of Barbara Morgan talking to children about space 2. Close-up of Morgan giving lecture 3. Mid of morgan giving lecture 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barbara Morgan, Teacher preparing to travel into space: "I can't think...
News Clip6:08
Curated Video

Exhibition celebrates the life of scientist Stephen Hawking

Higher Ed
AP Television London, UK, January 19, 2012 1. Various of exhibit showing photograph of Stephen Hawking in his office in front of a board showing his astronomical calculations 2. Wide of exhibit displaying trophies and objects from his...