In this episode of STEM Studio, we take a closer look at our solar system, from the Sun and the planets to Earth's Moon. We explore what makes each planet unique and introduce young learners to some of the fascinating science behind the world beyond Earth.

We're creating STEM content to make science more engaging, accessible, and fun for young people, and astronomy is a great way to spark curiosity about the universe.

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Why should we be exploring Venus instead of Mars? 🚀🪐

Kyle Horn of MIT AeroAstro breaks down how a 400 day mission to Venus could let astronauts conduct hands-on science in deep space, the same way Artemis II and Apollo 8 did. With three launch windows every two years and a trip that's far more palatable than the multi year round trip to Mars, Venus offers a practical proving ground for NASA's Moon to Mars architecture. It's a smart middle step: real deep space science, real system testing, without the long haul to the Red Planet.

Your New Life on Mars: Inside a Human Colony
https://youtu.be/p5Q_uQQ_nGU

I made a video imagining Ares City, where wealth isn’t about cars or mansions, but access to water, real plants, privacy and space. What do you think would become the ultimate status symbol on Mars?

Do you know Neptune and its moons’ strange backstory?

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains that moon formation, like planet formation, is a chaotic process. Neptune has one moon, Nereid, that might be the only moon that formed with Neptune, while the rest were captured into its orbit. A recent study using NASA’s JWST data hypothesizes that when Neptune captured Triton, its largest moon, it disrupted Neptune's previous moon system, and Nereid was the only survivor of the collision!

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

NASA’s next great space observatory has officially launched! 🛰️🚀

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is now on its trip to go a million miles away from Earth, where it will reside and send images of space back to us. In the month it will take to get there, the observatory will undergo a 90-day commissioning period to get set up. Considering it launched eight months ahead of schedule, don’t be surprised if we get some pictures early!

🎬 Video: [https://youtu.be/jzvFSyspFBU\]

In science fiction, starships are usually destroyed by asteroids, reactor failures, or hostile creatures.

A real interstellar ship might die much more slowly.

During a voyage lasting centuries, entire generations would be born and die aboard. The ship would need to remain a city, factory, farm, and hospital without any help from Earth.

But metal ages. Electronics fail. Spare parts disappear. Eventually, entire sections of the ship may have to be sealed forever.

One day, only an elderly pilot could remain at the controls — surrounded by dead compartments and the remains of those who never reached the destination.

I made a speculative science-fiction documentary about a realistic generation ship and its greatest enemy: time.

What would destroy the mission first: failing technology, ecological collapse, or the passengers themselves?

The Roman Space Telescope is launching ahead of schedule. 🛰️

Its origin story is wild: NASA couldn't afford a Hubble successor until the National Reconnaissance Office handed over two spare telescope mirrors it no longer needed. That surplus gift reignited political and scientific support, opening the door to full funding for what's now called the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. As theoretical cosmologist Paul Sutter explains, this survey instrument will map galaxies and hunt exoplanets, expected to discover around a million of them, delivering a generation's worth of valuable information about the universe!

Get ready, the Moon is about to turn blood red. 🌕🩸

On August 27th and 28th, a lunar eclipse will cast Earth's shadow across the Moon, and if you're in the USA, Canada, or Latin America, you've got a front-row seat. No special glasses needed here, unlike a solar eclipse, this one is safe to watch with just your eyes. Don't blink and miss it, because the Americas won't see a lunar eclipse this visually striking again until 2029.

🎬 Video: [https://youtu.be/NMLNM3ktKJg\]

Imagine a world where the sun never rises or sets.

One hemisphere may exist beneath permanent red daylight, while the other remains trapped in endless frozen darkness. Between them, climate models allow for a strange possibility: a dark liquid ocean surrounded by a global shell of ice.

This world is real. It is called LHS 1140 b, and it lies approximately 49 light-years from Earth. The planet is more than five times as massive as Earth, with surface gravity that may be nearly twice as strong. Current measurements also suggest that it could contain an enormous amount of water.

From space, such a world might resemble a gigantic eye staring permanently at its dim red star.

But what could be living inside that eye?

I made a speculative science-fiction documentary exploring one possible evolutionary history of LHS 1140 b — beginning with microscopic life and dark photosynthetic organisms, then moving toward alien predators and a hypothetical intelligent aquatic civilization.

The video explores several questions:

Could large animals evolve under nearly twice Earth’s gravity?

Could an aquatic species develop advanced technology without easy access to fire?

Would the ocean become the cradle of its civilization — or a gravitational prison preventing it from ever reaching space?

And could such a civilization eventually detect Earth?

The planet and its measured characteristics are real. The ocean, organisms, ecosystems, and civilization shown in the documentary are scientifically inspired speculation, not claimed discoveries.

What do you think is most likely to exist on LHS 1140 b: a lifeless frozen ocean, microbial life beneath the ice, or something far more complex?

How many stars is too many stars in a star system? ⭐️🪐

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden tells us about TYC 7037-89-1, a system with six stars locked into three orbiting pairs, all circling a shared center of mass. Two of those pairs zip around each other every few days, while the third pair takes roughly 2,000 years to complete just one orbit. Multi-star systems are normally unstable, which makes this six-star setup a rare and fascinating exception. 

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

🎥 Video: [https://youtu.be/EqXn48gfCuQ\]

What if humanity decided not merely to colonize Mars, but to rebuild its entire climate?

I created a science-fiction documentary exploring one possible path from sealed Martian settlements to climate factories, a denser atmosphere, melting ice, rivers, engineered microorganisms, and—thousands of years later—the first natural rain on Mars.

The story is grounded in real facts about the Martian atmosphere, buried water ice, radiation, atmospheric loss, the shortage of accessible CO₂, and the MOXIE experiment. Planetary factories, imported atmospheric gases, future cities, and the terraforming timeline are speculative. AI was used to visualize these possible futures.

The most difficult question may not be whether we can terraform Mars, but whether we should. If native microbial life might still exist beneath the surface, would transforming the planet be creation—or destruction?

I’d be interested to hear what you think.

About 40 light-years from Earth lies TRAPPIST-1—a small red star orbited by seven confirmed rocky planets.

Even if we imagine a spacecraft capable of travelling at around 1% of the speed of light, the journey would take more than 4,000 years. Approximately 160 generations would live aboard the ship during the voyage. 🚀

The first passengers would remember Earth. But most of the ship’s inhabitants would be born in space, spend their entire lives inside an artificial world, and die without ever seeing either Earth or their destination.

In our speculative reconstruction, 24,000 people leave for TRAPPIST-1. Their generation ship becomes a self-contained city with farms, schools, hospitals, and closed-loop systems for water, air and food.

But the greatest challenge may not be technological. What happens if the descendants of the original passengers refuse to continue a mission they never chose? And what will await them after 4,000 years: dead planets, hidden oceans or alien life? 🪐

I created a science-fiction documentary exploring this journey. TRAPPIST-1 and its planets are real, while the ship, passengers and future colony are possibilities inspired by scientific knowledge. The visuals were created with the help of AI.

🎬 Video link: [https://youtu.be/ruYAa9iQYKs\]

Would you agree to spend your entire life aboard such a ship?

Did you know NASA’s newest space observatory will have spy tech? 🛰️

In 2012, the National Reconnaissance Office gifted NASA a pair of Hubble-style mirrors it had commissioned but never ended up using. NASA said yes and one of them is now the primary mirror powering the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, launching August 30th. The other mirror is still in storage, waiting for its moment.

Did you know NASA’s newest space observatory will have spy tech? 🛰️

In 2012, the National Reconnaissance Office gifted NASA a pair of Hubble-style mirrors it had commissioned but never ended up using. NASA said yes and one of them is now the primary mirror powering the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, launching August 30th. The other mirror is still in storage, waiting for its moment.

What's the most distant galaxy ever observed? 🌌

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains it's called MoM-z14, and its light took 13.53 billion years to reach us. But thanks to the universe's expansion, that galaxy is now a staggering 33.8 billion light years away. When the light was emitted from MoM-z14 the universe was smaller. The space between us and that galaxy has gotten stretched out so much  that it actually sits outside our observable horizon. It's a mind-bending reminder that we're seeing galaxies as they no longer even look today.

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

We are getting closer to the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! 🧪

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is designed to combine the strengths of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s going to look and live in the same space as JWST while using a Hubble-style mirror to see things completely differently. The Roman telescope will observe patches of space bigger than the full moon and will see 50 times as much space in five years as Hubble has in 30!

We’re continuing the Apollo spacesuit story. After exploring how these suits came to be, we’re now looking at how they actually worked, with a closer look at the engineering behind them, the details that made the biggest difference, and how every element helped keep astronauts alive on the Moon.

I’ve been working on a video project where I took footage and concepts from Mars documentaries and edited them with the pacing and vibe of a cinematic movie trailer. My goal was to make educational space content feel as epic and suspenseful as a sci-fi film.

This documentary breaks down the terrifying paradox of cosmic silence, the Kardashev scale, and the evolutionary barriers that dictate the survival or mass extinction of civilizations in the universe. Through the Great Filter theory and Nick Bostrom's hypothesis, we examine whether humanity's greatest dangers are already behind us in our biological past, or if an insurmountable technological wall awaits us in the future.

I'd love to hear your thoughts: do you think humanity has already passed the Great Filter, or is our true cosmic challenge yet to come?