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How Scientists Found the First Type of Molecule in the Universe - SciShow News
Around a quarter of a million years after the Big Bang, the very first molecule, helium hydride was formed. Now scientists have confirmed that molecule is still being made, and they found it with some help from a high flying airplane.
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The Tiny Planet Revealing Gravity’s Big Secrets
Mercury’s path through our solar system is, well, a little eccentric, and some of its movements were a mystery astronomers couldn’t explain for a long time. Then, in the early 20th century, Einstein reran the numbers and proved a whole...
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How SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket
We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!
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What Happened to the Juno Spacecraft?
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is a trooper as it continues its 2-year-long mission.
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3 Weird Meteorites (Whose Weirdness Was Instructive)
Meteorites are extraterrestrial rocks that have ended up on earth. All of them are literally 'out of this world,' but here are three of the strangest of these aliens.
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Found Dozens of Ancient Cryovolcanoes on Ceres! SciShow News
Scientists may have discovered up to 31 more cryovolcano remnants on Ceres, and the Iridium flares are slowly being allowed to burn up in our atmosphere, so see them while you still can!
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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.
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3 Space Mission Problems in a Week - SciShow News
It's been a tough week for space missions, from a failed Soyuz launch to two emergency shutdowns of space-based telescopes.
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Are There Other Planets Like Earth?
Earth is unique in that it's the only planet we know of that can support life. But could there be another planet like ours somewhere far away?
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NASA's Ambitious Asteroid Mission
SciShow Space is one year old! And we’re celebrating by talking about new plans for a mission we told you about in our very first episode of SciShow News!
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Could E.T. Really Find Us? | Compilation
Being the only observable intelligent life in the universe gets lonely sometimes, so it's no wonder we're trying to find something out there to phone home about.
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We Found Superconductors in Meteorites!
We've found the first confirmed superconductors in meteorites, and our simulated atmosphere game is really heating up!
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Asteroids
Now that we’ve finished our tour of the planets, we’re headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of smallish planets but were destroyed after collisions. Most orbit the Sun between...
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Is Earth Getting Heavier?
SciShow Space tackles a viewer question: Is the Earth getting heavier? The answers -- there's actually more than one -- may surprise you!
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Why Scientists Tracked One Neutrino Across the Universe
Last week scientists announced that they’ve likely identified the very first astrophysical source of high-energy neutrinos.
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How to Study String Theory Using X-Rays - SciShow News
Over the last few years astronomers have been doing more and more research based on string theory, and thanks to modern telescopes the results are... less than encouraging
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Two New Planets Discovered?
Click here to find out more about "New Planets Found!" and "SUPER EARTH Orbiting Our Sun!". Ignore the clickbait...Hank Green explains what might have been found in this episode of SciShow Space.
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The Impossible Propulsion System
Do you remember the exciting rumor about NASA’s EMdrive? Well, now it’s official: NASA has created their own EM drive! Meanwhile, SpaceX has a plan which will make the internet more accessible.
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Enceladus's Super-Thin Ice
You might not want to sign up for the Enceladus Ice Hockey League... And some researchers have an idea that might make the Big Bang model more accurate!
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TED: A future worth getting excited about | Elon Musk
What's on Elon Musk's mind? In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he's working on -- Tesla's intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX's otherworldly Starship and Neuralink's...
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Why Physics Can't Totally Explain the Universe's Expansion - SciShow News
Astronomers have gotten pretty good at calculating how fast the universe is expanding, but new measurements don’t line up with the predictions of well-tested laws of physics. Now scientists have a new question to ponder: Why are these...
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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!
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Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science...