The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first time, a feature-length documentary is dedicated to the search for the significance of our home star for mankind, science and nature. Thanks to the researchers from the American space agency NASA, who work at the Canary Islands observatories in the hottest and coldest places on the planet.

Our planet is running out of drinking water. Only a vanishingly small proportion of the world's wate...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...

A golden sunrise brings light to the foggy hills and meadows of late summer.

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

An educational film about the nervous system produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an education...

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film produ...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...

The Estonian national team is the first Baltic team to participate in the Bridgestone World Solar Ch...

In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a proc...

The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens abov...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

Although a real awareness of the populations is underway - the multiplication of natural disasters a...