TED Talks
Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team's work...
SciShow
What Knocked Over Uranus And Two Other Mysteries?
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.
SciShow
Why This Galaxy Gets TWO Black Holes
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!
SciShow
3D Printing Moon Bricks for a Moon Base
ESA's newest printer at the DLR German Aerospace Center in Cologne,
MinutePhysics
How Do We Know The Universe Is ACCELERATING?
Aatish Bhatia helped write this video! A big thanks for his help! Here's his blog: http://www.empiricalzeal.com The universe is expanding – this we know from looking at red shifts of distant galaxies – but the acceleration of the...
PBS
How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
The great advances in any science tend to come in sudden leaps. April 25th of 2018 marks the beginning of just such a leap for much of astronomy. In the early hours of the morning, the Gaia mission's second data release dropped. Our...
SciShow
Gravitation: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #3
Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics with a description of gravitation -the interaction by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to that of their masses, and which is responsible for...
SciShow
3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
SciShow
How We Accidentally Discovered Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts are one of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy, but the mystery began on accident, thanks to the Cold War!
PBS
Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the first time, spotted gravitational...
PBS
Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
Scientists studying quantum vortices and their impact on superconductivity just won the Nobel Prize.
SciShow
Dark Matter is Slowing Down the Milky Way
The effects of dark matter on galaxies is a mystifying and difficult thing to study, but the Milky Way's galactic bar might present an exciting way to quantify how much of it exists!
SciShow
Special Webb Update: The Webb's First Four (actually 7) Images Explained
The first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope are finally here! Let's take a look, talk about what we're seeing, and compare them to the most detailed version of these images we had before.
SciShow
New Space-Flight Awesomeness!
SciShow Space celebrates the Falcon 9 vertical landing and looks forward to new missions in space! Also-- are globular clusters a good place to look for extraterrestrial life? Find out in this episode of SciShow Space News!
SciShow
Where Are All the Exo-Earths?
Scientists have discovered over 5,000 exoplanets in the last few decades, but where are the Exo-Earths?
SciShow
Space Headwinds Might Help Us Find Dark Matter
Some scientists are hoping to use our motion through the galaxy to help detect some of the most elusive particles of all: dark matter.
Crash Course
Dark Energy, Cosmology part 2
The majority of the universe is made up of a currently mysterious entity that pervades space: dark energy. We don’t know exactly what it is, but we do know that dark energy accelerates the expansion of space. We think this means the...
SciShow
Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
Find out what kinds of things are lurking near the center of our galaxy!
SciShow
How Did the Milky Way Get Its Spiral?
Most galaxies that we know of are spirals, including the Milky Way, but how do they form and keep their shape over billions of years?
SciShow
How SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket
We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!
SciShow
Why Scientists Tracked One Neutrino Across the Universe
Last week scientists announced that they’ve likely identified the very first astrophysical source of high-energy neutrinos.
SciShow
How to Study String Theory Using X-Rays - SciShow News
Over the last few years astronomers have been doing more and more research based on string theory, and thanks to modern telescopes the results are... less than encouraging
SciShow
Apocalypse? How?!
Hank debunks several apocalypse theories that predict Earth's demise in 2012.