SciShow
3 Epic Space Mission Fails
Space missions are difficult. Reid describes three epic space mission fails!
SciShow
How a Frozen Earth Gave the Moon Its Shape
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.
SciShow
Can We Grow Plants On the Moon?
Despite how easy it looks in movies, growing plants on other planets is trickier than you might imagine.
TED Talks
TED: Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb
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...
SciShow
Have We Contaminated the Moon?
Humans are full of microbes. Humans also went to the Moon. Does that mean we left colonies over there?
SciShow
Our Boats Are Changing the Tide
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...
TED Talks
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
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.
SciShow
The First Humans on the Moon
The Apollo 11 mission had many opportunities for things to go awry, and they almost did! Find out how a felt-tipped pen may have saved the lives of the first astronauts on the moon, and more!
Bozeman Science
Gravitational Force
In this video Paul Andersen explains how an object with mass placed in a gravitational field experiences a gravitational force. On the Earth this gravitational force is known as weight. The gravitational force is equal to the product of...
SciShow
The Cargo Ship Fireball
Reports of a fireball streaking through the sky are never a good sign after losing contact with a rocket.
SciShow
Carbon on the Moon Hints That It Didn’t Form Like We Thought | SciShow News
The idea that the Moon is a blown-off chunk of the Earth is known as the giant impact hypothesis - but the presence of carbon on the Moon throws this hypothesis into question.
SciShow
5 Unusual Places to Look for Life | Compilation
From "superhabitable planets" that can potentially sustain life longer than earth to rogue planets that don't even orbit a star, we’ve talked about some strange places that could host extraterrestrial life over the last few years. Here...
SciShow
World’s Most Asked Questions How Old is Earth
People ask Google everything under the sun. One of the most commonly searched questions in the world is “How old is Earth?” SciShow has the answer!
SciShow
Venomous Mammals, Sensory Receptors & the Moon's True Origin Story
Hank describes to us some news stories that illustrate how science is continually changing the things we think we "know" - from the status of various animals species, to the way our senses work and even where the Moon came from -...
SciShow
Mind the (Solar System's) Gap
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not...
SciShow
BigBrain & Supermoon
From brains to heavenly bodies, this week brings us some super-sized science... BigBrain is the highest resolution map of the human brain that's ever existed; a super high resolution interactive model of King Tut's tomb for anyone to...
Crash Course Kids
Astronaut Experiment
Air resistance! It's a thing! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina does her own Astronaut Experiment to show us how we can prove it!
MinutePhysics
The Dark Side of the Moon Explained in Ten Seconds
The Dark Side of the Moon Explained in Ten Seconds
PBS
The Great American Eclipse
Get your eclipse glasses ready because the a total solar eclipse is an astronomical event unlike any other.
SciShow
Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!
Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What would it be like to live on the moon? - Alex Gendler
The European Space Agency is hoping to establish an inhabited research base on the moon by the 2020s. But living in this "moon camp" won't be easy. How will humans deal with the cosmic radiation? What will the inhabitants eat? And what's...
SciShow
The Future of Life in the Solar System
In five billion years, the Sun's going to evolve into a red giant. That's bad news for Earth, but exciting for some of the worlds a little farther out.