Under the Dark Skies
AdultsHumanNatureSpace... National Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true ‘dark sky’ observatory experience, free from the artificial light prevalent in city and suburban communities.
How Do You Survive Being Trapped In Space? ft. William Osman
AdultsHealthHumanSpace... William Osman and Blocko are trapped on the international space station for this episode of Deblocked! How do you survive trapped in space?
How Captain Marvel Survives in Space
AdultsFilmScienceSpace... Carol Danvers received a plethora of powers when she hybridized with the Kree space aliens, but her most extraordinary is the ability to survive in space.
Three ways the universe could end
AdultsLifeScienceSpace... Our universe started with the Big Bang, but how will it end? Explore cosmologists’ three possible scenarios: the Big Crunch, the Big Freeze and the Big Rip.
Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.
Uranus 101 | National Geographic
AdultsMediaScienceSpace... Uranus is a planet beyond convention. Find out why it boasts the coldest temperatures in the solar system, what phenomena caused the unique tilt of its axis, and the curious origin of the planet's name.
Spinning Black Holes
AdultsHistoryScienceSpace... A pulsing black hole in the centre of a distant galaxy sheds light on black hole and galaxy formation. How fast are black holes rotating and how does that rotation change over its life-span?
Spinning Black Holes
AdultsMediaScienceSpace... A pulsing black hole in the centre of a distant galaxy sheds light on black hole and galaxy formation. How fast are black holes rotating and how does that rotation change over its life-span?
Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets
AdultsNatureScienceSpace... Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.
End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
AdultsHumanPhilosophySpace... Space travel is the most exciting adventure for humanity, but in an irony of history we may stop ourselves from going into space the more we do it.
Five Firsts for Mars InSight
AdultsHistoryScienceSpace... Mars InSight will be the first to detect seismic activity on Mars’ surface, first to measure rate of heat transmitted from interior, first to dig nearly 5m down, first to measure magnetic fields on Mars’ surface, and first to use a robotic arm to place instruments on the surface of Mars (assuming it lands of course…)
What’s the smallest thing in the universe?
AdultsData ScienceSpaceWorld... If you were to take a coffee cup, and break it in half, then in half again, and keep carrying on, where would you end up?
ZERO-G Challenges of a Trip to Mars!
AdultsLifeScienceSpace... When I got offered the chance to fly in another #zeroG plane, I jumped at the chance.
How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
AdultsPhilosophyScienceSpace... Every star, black hole, human being, smartphone and atom are all constantly pulling on each other due to one force: gravity.
What is Farthest Away?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSpace... The edge of everything used to be the edge of the map. But now, thanks to what we know about astrophysics and the universe, the edge of everything might not even exist…
Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?
AdultsScienceSpaceWorld... From asteroids capable of destroying entire species to supernovae that could exterminate life on Earth, outer space has no shortage of forces that could wreak havoc on our planet.
What is the universe expanding into?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSpace... The universe began in a Big Bang nearly fourteen billion years ago, and has been expanding ever since. But how does the universe expand and what is it expanding into?
The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe
AdultsLifeScienceSpace... What if there is a way to destroy the universe so fundamentally that life as we know it will be impossible forever?