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The Most Stable Neighborhoods in the Universe
No planet’s trip around a star is exactly like the one before it, because solar systems aren't as static as they first appear. Even small nudges can add up to disaster, but some objects find safe orbits with the help of a partner or two.
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The Lost Cargo Ship, and Pluto Has Ice Caps!
SciShow Space News explains how we lost track of a resupply mission, explores Pluto’s newfound ice caps, and helps you find Mercury.
TED Talks
Sheperd Doeleman: Inside the black hole image that made history
At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event...
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The Space Station's Inflatable Room
An ISS resupply mission is launching today and the space station should have a new inflatable room to experiment with!
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3 Extreme New Mission Concepts
From asteroid spaceships, to exploring ice volcanoes, let's look at a few of the NIAC's recently approved Phase I projects!
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Billions of Earth-Like Planets!
Hank tells us about the Kepler Space Telescope and its new data!
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Will there be a ring in Mars's future?
Will Mars have a ring around it? Hank Green explains in this episode of Scishow Space News!
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Skylab: The First Americans Living In Space
Skylab set the stage for future space stations like Mir and the ISS, and showed that people really could live in space for a while and do important scientific research.
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The First Results on the Interstellar Asteroid!
Our asteroid news edition this week clears up some misleading headlines regarding 3200 Phaethon, and our interstellar visitor has both a new name and a shape we haven’t seen before.
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New Jupiter Discoveries from the Juno Mission!
The Juno spacecraft has been making close flybys of Jupiter and its measurements have revealed some new things about Jupiter’s interior. And astronomers were surprised after putting together the most complete atmospheric profile that’s...
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Rocket Landing on a Drone Ship!
Falcon 9 has successfully landed and NASA redirects the Kepler telescope out of emergency mode!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Life of an astronaut - Jerry Carr
Astronaut Jerry Carr knows space. As commander of Skylab, he spent over 2000 hours in space, orbiting the Earth over 1000 times. Recounting his life story, Carr remembers the enchanting years he spent at NASA. Lesson by Jerry Carr,...
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We Just Shot an Asteroid... for Science! Space News
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a bullet into an asteroid and Neptune officially has 14 moons!
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NASA's Plan to Capture an Asteroid
Caitlin Hofmeister walks you through NASA's planned Asteroid Retrieval Mission, which aims to capture a space-rock and put it in lunar orbit for study -- all by 2025!
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We Found a Planetary Graveyard | SciShow News
Researchers think they may have found a new way to study planets after they've been "buried" in a star! Astronomers are also officially acknowledging the discovery of a distant body with a thousand-year orbit and an adorable nickname.
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How to Tilt a Black Hole
It seems the more we learn about black holes, the more there is to find out. In this case, what in the universe could have put one on its side?
TED Talks
TED: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from...
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New Discoveries from Our Second Interstellar Visitor - SciShow News
This year, scientists have had a chance to study something pretty mind-boggling: a comet that came from outside of our solar system.
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Get Ready New Horizons Is Approaching Its Next Target - SciShow News
New Horizons is on its way to Ultima Thule, the most distant object a spacecraft has ever visited. And scientists have created the sugar component of DNA under extraterrestrial conditions.
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Comet Chase & Molten Moons
In this episode of SciShow Space News, Hank details the work of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. He also explains the new discoveries of Jupiter's moon Io.
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Life on an Eyeball Planet? It's Possible
Tidally locked planets could be more common than Earth-like planets! And these 'eyeball planets' might even be a promising place to look for unique lifeforms!
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This Amazing Mission Almost Failed After Launch
The ESA Hipparcos team worked for 20 years on the project, then had to watch as the mission ALMOST failed! But somehow, they turned it around, and today, this little-known mission has totally transformed what we know about space.
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Mission Cliffhanger On Venus
Akatsuki missed Venus once, but with a little ingenuity and its secondary engines, it's heading back on December 7th!
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8 New Earth-Like Planets Discovered!
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.