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The Deep Space Network A Communication Hub That Also Does Science!
The Deep Space Network is a special network of radio dishes for tracking and talking to spacecraft, and it contributes some cool scientific observations of its own too.
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How to Clean Up After Ourselves in Space
We've launched thousands of spacecraft over the years. And as the space junk around our planet builds up, researchers are working on ways to clean things up using some obvious things, like lasers, and some less obvious ones, like solar...
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Pluto: Still Not A Planet
The ESA is working on a 'fresh-squeezed' spacecraft that will explore Jupiter's moons, and the New Horizons team makes a case for Pluto (and many others)!
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The Coolest Missions from India's Space Program
The Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, is on its way to becoming a leader in space exploration - and they're just getting started.
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More Space Exploration Missions
Hank updates us on two new missions that will help us learn more about some of the fascinating things in our space neighborhood.
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How Do Rockets Fly? | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids
Rockets are super amazing, but how do we get something that weighs as much as 100 elephants all the way into space?
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How 19th Century Lighthouses Power Advanced Space Drives
The technology we use for space exploration gets more advanced all the time, but some of our most ambitious programs actually rely on optics invented in the 19th century for lighthouses.
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Space Elevators
Hank talks about space elevators, and why we shouldn't expect to see one any time soon.
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Where Does the Solar System End?
SciShow Space explains how different experts define our the boundaries of our solar system and why it's way more complicated (and interesting) than it sounds.
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What Do You Learn When You Touch the Sun?
Though our Sun is something we can count on to rise and set each day, it also comes with some phenomena that can catch us by surprise: solar winds. To better predict when these winds will travel all the way to Earth, we sent the Parker...
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How the US Launched Its First Satellite
60 years ago, in January 1958, the United States launched its first satellite, Explorer 1.
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New Ways to Study Interstellar Space... With Voyager!
Voyager 1 may be out of our solar system (and 40+ years old) but we're still getting plenty of new data from our interstellar space probe.
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A New Way to Move Tiny Spacecraft Electrospray Propulsion
Big, fiery rocket launches are just too powerful for something like a toaster-sized CubeSat once it’s in space. Electrospray propulsion is a promising new way to move these little satellites.
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How Radio Waves Could Help Clear the Way to Space
There is an invisible shell of radiation surrounding our planet that can wipe out satellites and could endanger future explorers. One possible solution to this problem? Good, old-fashioned radio waves.
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The Milky Way Broke Its Arm
The spiral of the Milky Way is not as smooth as we once thought because an arm not so far from home appears to be broken! And we may have discovered the answer to why a local asteroid puts on the appearance of a comet.
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The Asteroid Belt: Not What You Think!
Buckle up for a trip to the asteroid belt -- though it's not nearly as dangerous out there as you might think. But there's a LOT waiting to be discovered, including some crucial clues about the formation of the solar system itself.
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In Space, No One Can Stop You From Welding
The welding process usually involves pretty extreme levels of heat. But it turns out that in the cold vacuum of space, metals can weld together... automatically.
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How We Know Star Wars Isn’t A Documentary | Compilation
Plot often trumps reality when portraying space in movies and, as a result, many films are full of inaccuracies. So how much fiction is actually written into some of our favorite movies? Movies mentioned (and potentially spoiled) in this...
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New Watery Discoveries on Enceladus and Europa!
These days, it seems like we're finding water all over the solar system. Still, it takes a lot more than a little H2O to support life.
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Voyager 2’s Notes from Interstellar Space | SciShow News
Voyager 2 is the second object to leave our solar system, which means we now have twice as much information about its edges! And scientists have found a record-breaking black hole.
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New Jupiter Weirdness From Juno
Astronomers have announced the Juno space probe’s first findings from Jupiter!
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What Do Astronauts Do?
You may have dreamed of being an astronaut, or maybe that's what you want to be when you grow up! But how do astronauts become astronauts, and what do they do when they're in space? Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn what it takes to be an...
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The Stardust Mission: Collecting Comet Dust in Space
Around 20 years ago NASA launched a spacecraft to study the comet Wild-2. What it brought back would cause scientists to wonder whether the building blocks of life could have arrived at Earth on a comet.
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Take a Tour of Jupiter and Saturn
If you could pilot a spaceship into Jupiter and Saturn, would you ever hit anything solid? And what's it like in there? SciShow Space takes you on a tour of the two biggest gas giants in the solar system.