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Maybe There Isn't Liquid Water on Mars
Two years ago we were very excited about the announcement of water on Mars, but some new research challenges that idea. And one of our most successful exoplanet finding tools has discovered another one, this time pretty close to home!
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How Joan Feynman Demystified Auroras | Great Minds
The auroras are one of earth's most dazzling displays, but thanks to Joan Feynman we know that they're so much more.
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“Do Fabulous Science”: Jane Rigby | Great Minds
Astronomer Dr. Jane Rigby challenges the limits of the naked eye. Having influenced most famous telescopes that come to mind, her work is defined by breaking boundaries both physical and beyond.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney
About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel. No longer able to produce sufficient energy to maintain its structure, it collapses under its own gravitational pressure and explodes in a supernova. The...
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Building Robot Astronauts
NASA has put out the challenge: can YOU build software for a space robot? Along with that warm fuzzy feeling that you've helped humanity reach for the stars, a cash prize will be awarded to the winners.
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Secret' Space Plane, and Curiosity's New Rock
Caitlin delivers the latest developments from around the universe, including Curiosity's latest drill, the low-down on that "secret" space plane, and the dimmest galaxy ever detected.
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The Truth About the Sun's 'Twin' and the Dinosaurs
Researchers published a paper last month, exploring the possibility that our sun might have once had a stellar twin! Could our solar system have once been a binary, or even a multi-star system?
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Future Space News of 2017
We bring you a few upcoming missions that will be testing technology for future asteroid prospecting, trying to find more exoplanets, and continuing China's quest for a crewed moon mission.
Be Smart
How Many Stars Are There?
How many stars are there in the universe? Are there more stars out there than grains of sand on Earth? Thanks to advanced space telescopes, we've been able to peer farther into deep time and the distant universe than we ever thought...
Crash Course
Uranus & Neptune
Today we’re rounding out our planetary tour with ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Both have small rocky cores, thick mantles of ammonia, water, and methane, and atmospheres that make them look greenish and blue. Uranus has a truly weird...
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3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist
We explore several exoplanets whose features make us think they shouldn't even have been able to form in the first place!
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The Surprising Secrets of Destroyed Exoplanets - SciShow News
Scientists are learning new things by looking at the remains of exoplanets, NASA has unveiled a new spacesuit design, and engineers fixed a problem from one hundred million kilometers away.
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We Don't Actually Know Where the Sun Came From
We can’t find evidence of the Sun’s family, or how it might have formed, but we do have some pretty good theories.
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3 of the Most Peculiar Supernovas
Massive stars die in fantastic explosions called supernovas. Most of them fit neatly into a few categories, but then there are the peculiars, a special group of supernovas that don’t quite fit in with the rest.
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Space Superlatives of 2020!
2020 wasn't ALL bad news. This year scientists found ludicrously fast stars, ancient galaxy clusters, and developed a camera that could change how we study the night sky.
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Could Life Have Survived in Mars's Ancient Lake?
Samples from the Curiosity rover suggest that Mars had a potentially habitable lake in its past, and gravitational lensing has helped scientists weigh a star!
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A Telescope Bigger Than the Solar System
It turns out if you’d like to take a deeper look into the universe, the universe itself might actually help you do that!
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How Much of Me Is "Star Stuff?"
Carl Sagan famously observed that we are all made of "star stuff." But what does that mean? And how much of you is really made of dead stars? SciShow Space explains!
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We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
TED Talks
Jeremy Kasdin: The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets
Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't seen any of them -- yet. Jeremy Kasdin and his team are looking to change that with the design and engineering of an...
TED Talks
TED: The most mysterious star in the universe | Tabetha Boyajian
Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing...
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The Arizona Fireball and Planet Nine's Origins
An asteroid streaked across Arizona's night sky, and we have a new theory on where the hypothetical Planet Nine came from.
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On This Planet, the Floor Is Actually Lava | SciShow News
We have new insights into the bizarre nature of lava planets, and the icy moon Europa may yet reveal some of her salty secrets.
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We’re Talking To Aliens
We’ve done a lot of searching for life in the universe and we need to continue to if we hope to make contact. But not all of our attempts were expected to succeed. That’s where Beacon in the Galaxy comes in.