Instructional Video28:03
SciShow

Everything You Need to Know About Living on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are constantly researching different ways people could potentially live on Mars. Start making your future Martian travel plans with this collection of videos about the unique challenges of putting humans on Mars.
Instructional Video3:27
SciShow

The Biggest Water Reservoir in Space

12th - Higher Ed
In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole. Learn more about quasars and what this water can tell us about the...
Instructional Video4:39
Crash Course Kids

Planetary Plants

3rd - 8th
So we know what life needs here to work, and we've talked a little about what life COULD look like on other planets. But what about plant life? What could plant life look like on other planets? In this episode of Crash Course Kids,...
Instructional Video7:42
PBS

Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when a star eats its planets? Find out on today's Space Time Journal Club.
Instructional Video21:52
TED Talks

Richard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange

12th - Higher Ed
Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

Why We Want to Find Plate Tectonics in Space

12th - Higher Ed
It’s not easy to find active plate tectonics on other worlds, but doing so may bring us one step closer to finding a planet that can support life.
Instructional Video4:55
SciShow

What’s Hiding Inside The Crab Nebula?

12th - Higher Ed
The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied things in the sky, but it took glimpses through various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to get a full picture of what’s hiding inside!
Instructional Video9:03
PBS

Scientists Have Detected the First Stars

12th - Higher Ed
What do the first stars in the universe, dark matter, and superior siege engines have in common?
Instructional Video18:00
TED Talks

Charles Fleischer: All things are Moleeds

12th - Higher Ed
In a presentation that can only be described as epic, comedian Charles Fleischer delivers a hysterical send-up of a time-honored TED theme: the map. Geometry, numbers, charts and stamp art also factor in (somehow), as he weaves together...
Instructional Video6:22
SciShow

3 Weird Stars You Can See with the Naked Eye

12th - Higher Ed
These three stars can easily be seen with the naked eye, but it took some fancy telescopes for us to realize how weird they really are!
Instructional Video11:24
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show with Phil Plait

12th - Higher Ed
Hank squares off against Crash Course Astronomy host Phil Plait in our special Valentine’s/Old Timey Medicine edition of SciShow Quiz Show!
Instructional Video31:47
SciShow

Black Holes: The Hungriest Things in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you thought a hot dog eating contest was impressive to complete, imagine if a black hole entered it! They eat up everything around them, including stars! But they’re not just gluttonous blobs of the universe. Like all things in space,...
Instructional Video3:58
Instructional Video10:56
PBS

How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

How Bad Are Satellite Constellations for Astronomy? - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine being excited to use one of the world's most advanced telescopes, only to see bright streaks of light on every picture! This is a problem facing some astronomers as satellites fill up the night sky.
Instructional Video11:09
TED Talks

Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound

12th - Higher Ed
Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including "the oldest...
Instructional Video2:22
SciShow

Dark Matter

12th - Higher Ed
Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about twenty three percent of the known universe - the only problem is that no one really knows what it is...
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

This Stellar Blast Showered the Universe with… Calcium | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We knew some stars created large amounts of calcium, but no one really ever knew how...until now! Plus, astrophysicists believe they’ve finally seen evidence of the star that created one of the most important supernovas ever!
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow

Our Past Written in the Stars

12th - Higher Ed
Unfortunately, time machines don't exist, but there are other ways to learn about our sun's past.
Instructional Video15:51
TED Talks

Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

12th - Higher Ed
Cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view...
Instructional Video16:15
TED Talks

Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system

12th - Higher Ed
Every star we see in the sky has at least one planet orbiting it, says astronomer Sara Seager. So what do we know about these exoplanets, and how can we find out more? Seager introduces her favorite set of exoplanets and shows new...
Instructional Video5:17
TED Talks

Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems

12th - Higher Ed
To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extracting simple solutions from large data sets. What else could they do with this expertise? In an interdisciplinary talk, TED Fellow and...
Instructional Video6:11
SciShow

How To Make a Mutant Flu

12th - Higher Ed
Hank dishes out updates on the mutant flu virus and the James Webb Space Telescope, and gives us some new bits about new exoplanets, secret space planes, and a study that shows that music evolves according to Darwin's rules.
Instructional Video22:42
SciShow

What's It Like to Live in Space? | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you want to spend any amount of time in space, you'll have to make adjustments to your lifestyle. From what you eat, to how you go to the bathroom, to regular activities you're simply not allowed to do on the ISS, SciShow Space has...