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The Electric Thruster That Could Send Humans to Mars
To get humans on Mars we're going to need some innovative tech that can move lots of things at high speed. Luckily, we might already have something that can do the job.
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The Cargo Ship Fireball
Reports of a fireball streaking through the sky are never a good sign after losing contact with a rocket.
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The 100-Year Mystery of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Diffuse interstellar bands were first discovered in 1919 and since then scientists have found nearly 500 of them. How many do we understand? Only one.
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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...
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Space Compilation
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. Thus, we've created our Compilation Series. In this video, we look at some of our videos about Space. Sabrina talks to us about the Sun, stars, the universe, and...
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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...
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Meet the Milky Way's Last Big Meal: The Sausage Galaxy
Our Milky Way Galaxy once dined on the Sausage Galaxy, and Jupiter's auroras seem to be heavily influenced by one of its moons. It's a galaxy-eat-galaxy kind of universe out there!
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The Milky Way May Have a Disk of Black Holes
Computer models are helping scientists on the hunt for small black holes and new data is giving us a better understanding of the universe’s largest explosions.
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Meet Icarus: The Farthest Star We've Ever Seen
We’ve seen a distant star from another galaxy far, far away, and the Milky Way is growing, thanks to baby stars born in the outer edge of our galaxy’s disk.
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We're Heading to the Sun! SciShow News
On Aug. 12, 2018 the Parker Solar Probe started its journey to the sun and New Horizons is looking at a mysterious glow at the edge of the solar system.
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Is There Sound in Space?
Sound can't actually travel through a vacuum like space, but scientists have learned that there's still plenty to hear.
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Using Galaxy Clusters to Look Into the Past
Gravitational lensing has given us a look at a galaxy in the very, very distant cosmic past using x-ray light, and NASA finally got its ICON mission off the ground!
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Space Hype!
Sometimes science news is less about stuff that actually happened, as much as it is about people going "PAY ATTENTION TO ME" and space news is no exception. In fact this week there was probably as much hype as real news, all in the name...
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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.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Space
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we travel beyond Earth and explore some of our favorite mysteries about space.
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The Universe Is Expanding... But Not Everywhere
The Universe is expanding which means distant galaxies are only moving farther away from us. So in the farthest future, will our night sky be empty?
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Fermi Bubbles Our Galaxy’s Giant Gamma Ray Mystery
Fermi bubbles are made up of gamma rays, but where they came from is still up for debate. Did they come from a star-forming region, or the black hole at the middle of our galaxy?
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Why Do the Planets Orbit in the Same Plane?
While there is a little wiggle room, the planets in our solar system really are orbiting on mostly the same level. Why do they do that?
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What We’re Learning from the Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - SciShow News
It’s been a great week for space explosions! Astronomers learned more about the mechanism that causes novas by looking at the nova V906 Carinae, and the brightest supernova ever recorded shed some new light on pulsation pair-instability.
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We Just Found a Galaxy with Almost No Dark Matter
Scientists have found a galaxy with almost no dark matter and we have finally solved the Leading Arm mystery!
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What Would We Eat on Mars? | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids
Sam the bat would love to visit Mars one day, but he's going to need more than a few sandwiches if he's going to stay for long.
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How the Oldest Rocks on Earth Changed History
Scientists have uncovered the oldest rocks from Earth, and they're shaking up what we knew about Earth's history.
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Creating a Template for Habitable Exoplanets
We've found thousands of exoplanets over the years, but if we're going to find one that can sustain life, we need to take a look at the one planet we know that can, Earth.