Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

How Saturn's Moons Could Help Us Live in Space

12th - Higher Ed
As we continue our search for life out in the universe, it's important that we leave no stone, or moon, unturned.
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

Forecasting the Weather...on the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
The sun is beginning a new weather cycle, causing debate among scientists about how intense things are going to get, and elsewhere, scientists are looking into just how fluid our early universe was.
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

China's Almost Ready to Build Their Space Station

12th - Higher Ed
The International Space Station might be getting a new neighbor because China has big plans for their future in space!!
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Hottest Planet Ever

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is launching a mission to send a probe into the sun, and it's the first to be named after a living scientist: Eugene Parker and the Parker Solar Probe! Astronomers have found another hot topic, and it's the hottest planet we've ever...
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow

That’s Not a Black Hole, It’s a Vampire

12th - Higher Ed
What was once thought to be a black hole might in fact be a star that feeds on its own kind!
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

Evidence for Tatooine!

12th - Higher Ed
But maybe don't bust out the moisture farm equipment just yet!
Instructional Video5:13
SciShow

This New Star Is a Ticking Time Bomb - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We might be sitting next to the largest bomb in the galaxy and NASA's InSight lander will touch down on Mars this Monday!
Instructional Video4:24
SciShow

How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?

12th - Higher Ed
What kinds of tools do astronomers use to calculate the age of the universe, and how can they determine the speed of its expansion?
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

Mystery Solved: We Finally Know Why Betelgeuse Suddenly Faded | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Our neighboring star Betelgeuse got noticeably dimmer a few months ago, and thanks to the Hubble telescope, we recently figured out what was going on. Also, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suffered some damage this week.
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

Why These Two Planets SHOULD Be the Same

12th - Higher Ed
You'd think that two planets with similar stats, orbits, and parent stars would grow up to be pretty similar, but these twins have atmospheres that beg to differ.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

Pioneer 10: Our First View into Outer Planets

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1970's, no vehicle had gone beyond the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, that is until Pioneer 10.
Instructional Video3:26
MinutePhysics

How Do We Know The Universe Is ACCELERATING?

12th - Higher Ed
Aatish Bhatia helped write this video! A big thanks for his help! Here's his blog: http://www.empiricalzeal.com The universe is expanding – this we know from looking at red shifts of distant galaxies – but the acceleration of the...
Instructional Video8:47
PBS

How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever

12th - Higher Ed
The great advances in any science tend to come in sudden leaps. April 25th of 2018 marks the beginning of just such a leap for much of astronomy. In the early hours of the morning, the Gaia mission's second data release dropped. Our...
Instructional Video11:53
Crash Course

High Mass Stars

12th - Higher Ed
Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to iron. Iron robs critical energy from the core, causing it to collapse. The shock wave, together with a huge...
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

Gravitation: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #3

12th - Higher Ed
Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics with a description of gravitation -the interaction by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to that of their masses, and which is responsible for...
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

The Fiery, Pitch-Black Egg-Planet

12th - Higher Ed
Last week, the Cassini probe dove into Saturn, never to be heard from again, but thankfully, Cassini wasn't the only probe out there. And we've also found an exoplanet that might be even darker and stranger than we thought.
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

Tatooine Discovered?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Does Deep Space Cause Heart Disease?

12th - Higher Ed
A bizarre lonely star grows brighter, and we investigate a study that looks at whether astronauts that leave the magnetosphere have higher incidences of heart disease.
Instructional Video7:23
SciShow

Special Webb Update: The Webb's First Four (actually 7) Images Explained

12th - Higher Ed
The first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope are finally here! Let's take a look, talk about what we're seeing, and compare them to the most detailed version of these images we had before.
Instructional Video4:22
SciShow

The Sweetest Rocks in Space

12th - Higher Ed
Sugars aren’t just for munching and crunching, they also make up our genetic code! So what does it mean to find sugars INSIDE meteorites?
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

3 Ways Pi Can Explain Practically Everything

12th - Higher Ed
What’s irrational and never ends? Pi! Hank explains how we need pi to explain some of the most basic but most important principles of the universe, in honor of Pi Day.
Instructional Video11:55
TED Talks

TED: Why earth may someday look like Mars | Anjali Tripathi

12th - Higher Ed
every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 7 pounds of helium escape from earth's atmosphere into outer space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the phenomenon of atmospheric escape, and in this fascinating and accessible talk,...
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Landing on Europa!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has proposed a mission that would land on Europa to search for signs of life & we've learned something sad about one of our neighbors, Proxima b.
Instructional Video5:06
SciShow

Our Alarmingly Close Shave with an Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
How often do we miss asteroids like 2017 OO1, and what are astronomers doing to limit their impact? Meanwhile, distant icy worlds might not look as promising in our search for extraterrestrial life as scientists once thought.