Da Vinci imagined a helicopter powered solely by human muscles. Now more than 500 years later, two teams are using advanced materials to try and make that dream come true. Hank and Catilin discuss these two teams and the Sikorsky Prize...

2022 is looking like a great year for space exploration! Let's dig into three of the missions that we're really excited to watch unfold!

Spacebit is sending crawling, jumping, mini-robots to the moon, and researchers have witnessed a pulsar emit a very cool combination of traits in its most recent flare.

In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe built an observatory on an island and collecting some of the most accurate data ever. He also lost his nose in a duel with a classmate -- over who was the better mathematician.

Plenty of other planets in the Solar System have rings. So why not Earth?

With two new missions set by NASA, we hope to learn so much more of the asteroids surrounding Jupiter's orbit and the origin of our moon!

Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.

A bizarre lonely star grows brighter, and we investigate a study that looks at whether astronauts that leave the magnetosphere have higher incidences of heart disease.

In this episode, we discuss the basic nature of gravity, one of the four fundamental forces in our universe.

Over the next few episodes we're going to talk about the history of video games. Today, we're going to start with the first re-programmable computers in the 1940's. Now, these computers were serious tools. They were for codebreaking and...

Blues musician Tito Deler combines the sounds of his New York upbringing with the style of pre-war Mississippi Delta blues. He takes the stage, singing and strumming a stirring rendition of his song, "My Fine Reward."

NASA has announced the scientific instruments for the Europa Clipper mission, and Cassini has passed Hyperion, the so-called “spongy moon,” for the last time.

50 years ago, humans walked on the moon! Let's celebrate by watching some of our favorite videos about the Apollo missions.

SpaceX is spearheading space travel for consumers and one day hopes to take people to the moon!

We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!

Space missions are difficult. Reid describes three epic space mission fails!

We are that much closer to making space travel a reality and SpaceX is helping make that possible.

It might look like a perfect circle, but the Moon is actually wider than it is tall. Now, new calculations indicate that the Moon’s shape is a remnant of a time when Earth might’ve been covered in a single, global ice sheet.

Hank tells us four incredible things about Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa.

Despite how easy it looks in movies, growing plants on other planets is trickier than you might imagine.

The universe is incredibly old, astoundingly vast and populated by trillions of planets -- so where are all the aliens? Astronomer Stephen Webb has an explanation: we're alone in the universe. In a mind-expanding talk, he spells out the...

Humans are full of microbes. Humans also went to the Moon. Does that mean we left colonies over there?

We often think of the ocean’s tide as a simple rise and fall, connected to the motion of the Moon. But on any given shore, the reality is much more complex and oceanic scientists have realized recently that there’s another, more...

We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- but Drew Berry wants to change that. He demos his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.