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Charles Elachi: The story behind the Mars Rovers
At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover project.
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Our First-Ever Missions to Mars, and What We Learned From Them
A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!
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TED: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from...
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Brown Dwarfs Space’s Strangely Important Oddballs
You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the...
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We Just Landed on the Far Side of the Moon for the First Time! SciShow News
The new year is off to a great start for space exploration! New Horizons has passed the farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, and China put a lander on the dark side of the Moon!
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They're Calling It: The Forbidden Planet
We’ve discovered a planet that, for its size, is in a very strange place around it’s star! And other scientists, inspired by comets, have come up with a new way to potentially make breathable oxygen for people exploring Mars in the future.
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The First Results from NASA's InSight Lander! SciShow News
We finally have some results from the InSight lander’s measurements on Mars, and the Japanese Space Agency is moving forward with a probe that will explore Mars’s moons.
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The Moon's Birth May Have Given Earth Ingredients for Life - SciShow News
The event that gave us our moon may have also given us the elements necessary for life and scientists might have found a very tiny piece of our solar system's past way out in space.
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The Moon May Have Once Been Habitable! SciShow News
It's possible that the moon might have been able to support life billions of years ago, and scientists are using meteorites to learn about the history of our sun.
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Old Voyager Data Has New Secrets About Uranus - SciShow News
Scientists announced a major discovery about Uranus using 34-year-old data from Voyager 2, and the Canadian telescope CHIME has detected 9 new FRB repeaters, helping us learn more about these mysterious signals.
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New Discoveries from Our Second Interstellar Visitor - SciShow News
This year, scientists have had a chance to study something pretty mind-boggling: a comet that came from outside of our solar system.
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Get Ready New Horizons Is Approaching Its Next Target - SciShow News
New Horizons is on its way to Ultima Thule, the most distant object a spacecraft has ever visited. And scientists have created the sugar component of DNA under extraterrestrial conditions.
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Comet Chase & Molten Moons
In this episode of SciShow Space News, Hank details the work of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. He also explains the new discoveries of Jupiter's moon Io.
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Move Over, Mars We Could Farm on Asteroids!
When people live throughout the solar system, we'll need some way to feed them that doesn't involve constant shipments of Earth-grown food. Will the asteroid belt be our new cosmic food court?
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An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
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Future Space News of 2020
2020 is going to be an exciting year for space exploration, if everything goes according to plan. Humans are heading to space in new spacecraft, multiple Mars missions are on the horizon, and scientists are getting a new perspective on...
TED Talks
Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory
The Earth and Moon are like identical twins, made up of the exact same materials -- which is really strange, since no other celestial bodies we know of share this kind of chemical relationship. What's responsible for this special...
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How Slime Mold Is Tackling Mysteries of Cosmology - SciShow News
We might be able to use slime molds to help predict the shape of matter in the universe, and the Rosetta mission may have figured out why many comets seem to be missing a bunch of nitrogen.
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Did This Ancient Asteroid Cause an Ice Age? - SciShow News
Around 500 Million years ago, Earth’s climate was warm, and the planet had nearly no ice, even at the poles. Then an asteroid broke apart deep in our solar system, and our planet plunged into an ice age at the same time. Are the two...
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Two New Ways We Could Live on the Moon!
Last week, engineers announced two possible lunar habitats: a big pillowy space closet and lunar lava tubes.
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Life on an Eyeball Planet? It's Possible
Tidally locked planets could be more common than Earth-like planets! And these 'eyeball planets' might even be a promising place to look for unique lifeforms!
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The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
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Could Naked Singularities Exist?
A naked singularity is something that should be a black hole, but it’s neither black nor a hole. If they exist, they’ll rewrite physics as we know it.
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Why Was Mars's Underground Lake So Hard to Find? - Breaking News!
Researchers have discovered an underground, liquid water lake on Mars! What might it be like, and why did it take us so long to find it?