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 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 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 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!
Instructional Video4:37
SciShow

How Climate Change Is Creating More Space Junk

12th - Higher Ed
You’ve probably heard a lot about how climate change is affecting our planet, but did you know a warming climate also affects objects in space?
Instructional Video10:36
Crash Course

Venus

12th - Higher Ed
Venus is a gorgeous naked-eye planet, hanging like a diamond in the twilight -- but it’s beauty is best looked at from afar. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, due to a runaway...
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

Take a Ride on the Interplanetary Superhighway

12th - Higher Ed
Normal interplanetary travel uses lots of fuel, but taking advantage of some quirks of gravity can let us travel between planets using hardly any fuel at all.
Instructional Video3:28
SciShow

Why Doesn't Earth Have Rings?

12th - Higher Ed
Plenty of other planets in the Solar System have rings. So why not Earth?
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

Dark Matter is Slowing Down the Milky Way

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

How We Proved Earth Rotates Using a Giant Swinging Ball

12th - Higher Ed
People have suspected that Earth rotates for thousands of years, but how did we first prove it?
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

The SpaceX Explosion

12th - Higher Ed
What went wrong with SpaceX's Falcon 9 on September 1st? And an update on our old friend Philae!
Instructional Video14:13
TED Talks

Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids

12th - Higher Ed
What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid...
Instructional Video7:12
SciShow

The Imaginary Future Asteroid That Hit NYC

12th - Higher Ed
Last week, an asteroid impact drill was conducted, which demonstrated what might happen if an asteroid hit us within the decade. It didn't go quite as well as we would like.
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow

New Space-Flight Awesomeness!

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

Future Space News of 2016

12th - Higher Ed
Hank Green brings in 2016 with some space missions to look forward to!
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

SpaceX Is Sending People to the Moon!

12th - Higher Ed
SpaceX is spearheading space travel for consumers and one day hopes to take people to the moon!