TED Talks
TED: Look up for a change | Lucianne Walkowicz
How often do you see the true beauty of the night sky? TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz shows how light pollution is ruining the extraordinary -- and often ignored -- experience of seeing directly into space.
SciShow
The End of Everything
Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
SciShow
How Plastic Balls and Garbage Cans Help Us Study Space
How can we be so sure of the way celestial bodies behave when they're so far away? With the help of some speakers, garbage cans, and springs of course.
SciShow
What's It Like On Mercury?
SciShow Space takes you on a tour of Mercury, the sun's closest friend, where a year is just a day and half long, and the surface holds many surprises -- like ice!
MinuteEarth
The Faint Young Sun Paradox!
This video was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. To learn more, visit https://www.heisingsimons.org/ Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer: Emily Elert (@eelert) Script Editor: Rachel Becker (@RA_Becks) Video...
SciShow
Earth Used to Have 19-Hour Days (and Pluto Has Dunes!)
According to a new model, days on Earth used to really fly by, and today Pluto has wind-swept dunes made of very weird sand.
SciShow
How Does Titan Still Have an Atmosphere?
From what we know about Titan, it seems like its atmosphere should have disappeared millions of years ago. So, why hasn’t it?
SciShow
Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon? | SciShow News
If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are being thrown for a loop with the orbits of planets...
SciShow
Mars Express: Triumph From Disaster
Mars Express, one of the longest-running planetary probes ever made, was only intended to last for about two Earth years, but it's still going at 17! And it's taught us an unbelievable amount, including everything from studying its...
MinuteEarth
Unintended Consequences | MinuteEarth Explains
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we learn that for pretty much every action we humans take, there’s an unintended consequence we didn’t see coming.
SciShow
A Dying Hot Jupiter and The Birth of Carbon Planets
We think we discovered a Hot Jupiter being consumed by its star! Hank Green explains this and the birth of carbon planets in this episode of SciShow News.
TED Talks
TED: The mysterious world of underwater caves | Jill Heinerth
Cave diver Jill Heinerth explores the hidden underground waterways coursing through our planet. Working with biologists, climatologists and archaeologists, Heinerth unravels the mysteries of the life-forms that inhabit some of the...
TED Talks
TED: Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards
Life doesn't go from A to B -- it's messy, says sailing legend Tracy Edwards. In this inspiring talk, she tells how she went from teenage misfit to skipper of the first all-female crew in the toughest race on the seas -- and how she now...
SciShow
The Curiosity Rover Landing
Landing will take place the night of August 5th, 1:30 AM eastern, 10:30 pm pacific, and 6:30 AM GMT (August 6th.) The Mars Science Laboratory or Curiosity Rover is the largest payload ever delivered to the surface of a planet and it has...
SciShow
Record Cold Winter Could Be Thanks To Global Warming
Some people argue that the Polar Vortex is evidence against global climate change, but there’s actually growing evidence that a warming Arctic means colder winters.
SciShow
On Venus, You're Walking on Eggshells | SciShow News
Earth's thick crust might one of the reasons our planet can support life. But scientists are looking for something a little more brittle.
SciShow
A Planet Only Half Covered in Volcanoes | SciShow News
Scientists have found a world that might be half volcanoes, half ball of ice, and it could teach us a lot about how life began on earth.
TED Talks
TED: How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean | Sebastien de Halleux
Our oceans are unexplored and undersampled -- today, we still know more about other planets than our own. How can we get to a better understanding of this vast, important ecosystem? Explorer Sebastien de Halleux shares how a new fleet of...
SciShow
1,284 New Exoplanets, and Tsunamis on Mars!
Using a new technique, astronomers with the Kepler space telescope have confirmed a whole bunch of new exoplanets. And other astronomers have announced that mega-tsunamis were probably involved in shaping Mars' terrain.
SciShow
An Earth-Sized Telescope Just Snapped Two Pictures
We may soon have a direct image of a black hole, and we have the first detection of an atmosphere on an Earth-sized exoplanet!
SciShow
The First Exoplanets Were Found Around... a Pulsar
The first time scientists found exoplanets, they were orbiting something very different from our sun: a pulsar.
TED Talks
TED: Inside an Antarctic time machine | Lee Hotz
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.
SciShow
Will the Opportunity Rover Survive This Dust Storm?
The global dust storm on Mars is threatening the Opportunity rover and the wind on Venus might be changing the length of its days.
SciShow
4 Awesome Future Space Missions
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...