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NASA ScienceCasts

NASA video series covering fun, interesting, and unusual science and research topics from the International Space Station and NASA’s science missions.

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NASA ScienceCast 276: Something for Every Sky Watcher

NASA ScienceCast 276: Something for Every Sky Watcher

The July 27th night sky offers treats for sky watchers -- and listeners -- around the globe.

26 Jul 2018

3mins

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ScienceCast 10: Morning Planet Show

ScienceCast 10: Morning Planet Show

The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. Wake up before sunrise any day this month to see a shape-shifting... Read more

5 May 2011

2mins

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ScienceCast 04: Missing Sunspots

ScienceCast 04: Missing Sunspots

When solar activity recently plunged into a century-class minimum, many experts were puzzled. Now a group of researchers... Read more

23 Mar 2011

2mins

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ScienceCast 05: Superfluids

ScienceCast 05: Superfluids

Strange quantum fluids that love to sneak out of cups have been found trapped inside the core of a dead neutron star.

31 Mar 2011

2mins

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ScienceCast 62: Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon

ScienceCast 62: Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon

On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across th... Read more

24 May 2012

2mins

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ScienceCast 170: Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice

ScienceCast 170: Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice

Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingl... Read more

2 Dec 2014

3mins

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ScienceCast 172: The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on the International Space Station

ScienceCast 172: The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on the International Space Station

Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the strange way fluids slosh and bubble on the International Space Sta... Read more

30 Jan 2015

3mins

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ScienceCast 174: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's

ScienceCast 174: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's

The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but ra... Read more

4 Mar 2015

3mins

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NASA ScienceCast 303: Exploring the Presence of Water on the Moon

NASA ScienceCast 303: Exploring the Presence of Water on the Moon

The presence of water on the Moon opens up many exciting possibilities for future exploration and just as many questions... Read more

24 Oct 2019

4mins

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ScienceCast 254: The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

ScienceCast 254: The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated te... Read more

18 Aug 2017

4mins

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ScienceCast 171: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower

ScienceCast 171: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower

Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower.... Read more

12 Dec 2014

3mins

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NASA ScienceCast 289: Small Satellites yield Big Discoveries

NASA ScienceCast 289: Small Satellites yield Big Discoveries

NASA uses CubeSats for new science missions and to test new electronics, sensors and software that might be included on ... Read more

4 Feb 2019

4mins

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ScienceCast 178: Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space

ScienceCast 178: Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space

Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found "yellow balls" in space that may hold important cl... Read more

7 Apr 2015

3mins

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NASA ScienceCast 269: New Science from Jupiter

NASA ScienceCast 269: New Science from Jupiter

As the Juno spacecraft orbits Jupiter, new discoveries about the giant planet continue to be made.

2 May 2018

4mins

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ScienceCast 180: Desert Dust Feeds Amazon Forests

ScienceCast 180: Desert Dust Feeds Amazon Forests

The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert seem utterly different. Yet NASA satellites have discovered a surprising con... Read more

28 Apr 2015

4mins

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ScienceCast 196: Close Encounter with Enceladus

ScienceCast 196: Close Encounter with Enceladus

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft is about to make a daring plunge through one of the plumes emerging from Saturn's moon Encelad... Read more

27 Oct 2015

3mins

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ScienceCast 89: Comet of the Century

ScienceCast 89: Comet of the Century

Astronomers are keeping a close eye on a newly-discovered Comet ISON, which could become visible in broad daylight later... Read more

18 Jan 2013

4mins

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ScienceCast 137: A Telescope Bigger than a Galaxy

ScienceCast 137: A Telescope Bigger than a Galaxy

Astronomers have figured out how to use the gravity of distant galaxies to bend light and magnify images, allowing them ... Read more

6 Mar 2014

3mins

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ScienceCast 205: Quantum Foam

ScienceCast 205: Quantum Foam

Researchers have used NASA space telescopes to prove that space-time is much less "foamy" than some models predict.

31 Dec 2015

4mins

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ScienceCast 138: A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses

ScienceCast 138: A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses

A total lunar eclipse on April 15th marks the beginning of a remarkable series of eclipses all visible from North Americ... Read more

20 Mar 2014

3mins

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