After yesterdays post there were some comments on our Facebook page (facebook.com/bestouterspacevideos) which suggested that if time travel was ever going to be a reality we would have had time travellers from the future...
If we can control time we can control our destiny. Many scientists have been conducting research in their own laboratories and maybe in the 21st century present theories will become reality. Scientists are looking...
Curiosity has no less than 17 cameras. A Curiosity Engineer gives an update on what the cameras are and what each one is specifically used for. Curiosity is currently at Point Lake on Mars.
Rocket technology that has been used to put payloads into space is getting obsolete. For next generation space travel governments and private companies are looking at new forms of propulsion and reusable modules. Conventional...
Steve Jurvetson, MD of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, discusses the future of the Space industry with Jon Erlichman from Bloomberg. In ten years time we will see the cost of putting a man into space plummett...
After yesterdays posting on the outer planets we take a look at the inner planets of our Solar System, Mercury and Venus. Venus being one of the most beautiful visions in the Sky and...
How Pluto was discovered after it was postulated that there was a planet beyond Uranus and Neptune and the reason why Pluto lost its status a ‘planet’. With information on the New Horizons mission...
In part 6 of the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean we progress to the Middle Ages when astronomy was resurrected by people such as Kepler and Copernicus. Also a look at the history of...
Michio Kaku discusses ways in which we could explore the Universe. The biggest barrier to the human exploration of the Universe is ‘speed’. How do we build a craft that can travel to almost...
Part 5 of the first episode of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’. Carl explains how mans journey into space started many years ago during the time of the great library of Alexandria. He describes the ancient...
A look at the Kepler mission which aims to find Earth type planets in a region of a hundred million stars. Kepler has already discovered a number of planets in the Goldilocks zone of...
China’s 5th manned space flight, Shenzhou-10, launched today on a Long March 2F rocket. Liftoff occurred from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Here is part 4 of the first episode of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’, The Shores of The Cosmic Ocean. The story of Eratosthenes and he he deduced that the Earth was round and calculated its circumference...
Here is part three of the first episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. More on Stars, the planets and the Cosmos, narrated by Carl in his in unimistakeable hypnotic voice. It’s a shame Carl did...
Here is the second segment of the The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean. Which was the first episode of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ series. The series was first broadcast by the PBS in 1980 and was...
The late great Carl Sagan introduces his iconic series ‘The Cosmos – A Personal Voyage’. This is part 1 of 6 parts of episode one.
A look at what our ‘reality’ really is and answering the question is empty space really empty? A newly discovered ingredient of space that actually makes up 70 percent of the universe.
A good introduction to the concepts of Quantum Mechanics. Covers all topics including Schrodinger’s cat.
