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10:50
Ali Hajimiri
How wireless energy from space could power everything
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Jun 2023
5:57
Jessie Christiansen
What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe
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Jan 2023
26:55
Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake
The marvels and mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
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Nov 2022
8:31
Philip Lubin
How humanity can reach the stars
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Sep 2020
5:09
Fabio Pacucci
Newton's three-body problem explained
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Aug 2020
15:34
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars
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Dec 2019
13:52
Mike Brown
The search for our solar system's ninth planet
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Nov 2019
5:15
Lorin Swint Matthews
The dust bunnies that built our planet
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Sep 2019
14:26
Douglas Thomas
How a typeface helped launch Apollo
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Jul 2019
5:00
Augusto Carballido
There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system
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Jun 2019
16:20
Lynn Rothschild
The living tech we need to support human life on other planets
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Jun 2019
11:08
Phil Plait
The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
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Mar 2019
11:10
Sarah T. Stewart
Where did the Moon come from? A new theory
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Mar 2019
4:30
Venus Keus
Three ways the universe could end
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Feb 2019
4:39
Rene Laufer
How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
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Nov 2018
4:58
Fabio Pacucci
Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?
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Sep 2018
5:44
Sajan Saini
What is the universe expanding into?
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Sep 2018
5:34
Miho Janvier
Lessons from a solar storm chaser
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Dec 2017
12:16
David Baron
You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse
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Aug 2017
6:06
Carrie Nugent
Adventures of an asteroid hunter
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Mar 2017
13:47
Nagin Cox
What time is it on Mars?
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Feb 2017
11:55
Anjali Tripathi
Why Earth may someday look like Mars
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Dec 2016
10:39
James Green
3 moons and a planet that could have alien life
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Aug 2016
17:14
Stephen Petranek
Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive
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Apr 2016
5:50
Lucianne Walkowicz
Let's not use Mars as a backup planet
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Dec 2015
15:38
Wendy Freedman
This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
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Aug 2015
16:14
Sara Seager
The search for planets beyond our solar system
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May 2015
16:02
Nathalie Cabrol
How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life
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Apr 2015
17:47
Fred Jansen
How to land on a comet
Posted
Apr 2015
3:58
Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens
Is there a center of the universe?
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Jun 2013
7:53
Jon Nguyen
Tour the solar system from home
Posted
Jun 2012
3:29
Carolyn Porco
Could a Saturn moon harbor life?
Posted
May 2009
18:29
Penelope Boston
There might just be life on Mars
Posted
Dec 2008
28:17
Charles Elachi
The story behind the Mars Rovers
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Nov 2008
17:09
Carolyn Porco
This is Saturn
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Oct 2007
29:42
Stephen Petranek
10 ways the world could end
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