Instructional Video4:17
SciShow

Mars Lander Crash Update: Mystery Solved!

12th - Higher Ed
In October, the first mission of the ExoMars program arrived at the Red Planet, and things didn't go exactly as planned. As NASA investigates the crash, the mystery unfolds.
Instructional Video4:40
SciShow

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...
Instructional Video4:19
SciShow

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.
Instructional Video14:10
SciShow

Intergalactic Gardeners | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Gardening doesn't need to be a hobby just here on Earth. In fact, it might help life outside of Earth quite a bit to take that pastime to the stars.
Instructional Video3:43
MinutePhysics

Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter's moon Europa - they're ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed...
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Biggest Comet Ever Found is Headed Our Way

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are discovering new objects in the solar system all the time. Most of these are small asteroids or icy bodies, but researchers recently spotted something unexpectedly huge heading our way.
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

Fun in the Summer Sun… on Saturn

12th - Higher Ed
For 13 years, the Cassini probe circled Saturn and sent back fascinating data about the seasons of Saturn as it moved through a 29 Earth year Saturnian year.
Instructional Video5:30
Be Smart

What's REALLY Warming the Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
As earth temperatures continue to rise, what's really to blame?
Instructional Video6:03
SciShow

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.
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

Perseverance Landed on Mars! Now What? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has successfully landed on Mars! But it's not alone! This week we discuss not one but three amazing missions to Mars.
Instructional Video13:23
TED Talks

TED: SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration | Jennifer Heldmann

12th - Higher Ed
SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new -- and supersized -- way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help...
Instructional Video2:11
Be Smart

The Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is

12th - Higher Ed
Is the equinox really when day = night, or is that a myth?
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

3 Space Missions to Look for in 2021

12th - Higher Ed
2021 is expected to bring some very exciting missions: We're putting more cool tech on Mars, going back around the Moon, and testing some sweet planetary defense from asteroids!
Instructional Video4:09
SciShow

Our Next Mission to Mars, and How the Sun Will Kill the Internet

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space shares the latest news from around the universe, including new details about our next mission to Mars, and a study that predicts a catastrophic solar storm may be more likely than we thought.
Instructional Video6:34
TED Talks

Jeremy Kasdin: The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't seen any of them -- yet. Jeremy Kasdin and his team are looking to change that with the design and engineering of an...
Instructional Video4:19
SciShow

The Arizona Fireball and Planet Nine's Origins

12th - Higher Ed
An asteroid streaked across Arizona's night sky, and we have a new theory on where the hypothetical Planet Nine came from.
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

How Saturn's Moons Could Help Us Live in Space

12th - Higher Ed
As we continue our search for life out in the universe, it's important that we leave no stone, or moon, unturned.
Instructional Video6:50
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 Video1:47
SciShow

Why Isn't "Zero G" the Same as "Zero Gravity"?

12th - Higher Ed
This Quick Question explains the difference between gravity and g-force, and how you can experience zero-g in space even when it’s not zero gravity!
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

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!!
Instructional Video5:40
SciShow

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.
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Hottest Planet Ever

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is launching a mission to send a probe into the sun, and it's the first to be named after a living scientist: Eugene Parker and the Parker Solar Probe! Astronomers have found another hot topic, and it's the hottest planet we've ever...
Instructional Video3:49
SciShow

A New Comet’s Very, Very Near Miss

12th - Higher Ed
This week, a new comet will make its first visit to the inner Solar System, just barely missing Mars (we hope). SciShow Space News takes you there!
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

Space Guns Don't Work (But We Built One Anyway)

12th - Higher Ed
Before we had rockets like the Falcon 9, we had other ideas of how we might shoot for the moon: space guns!