China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) can detect radio signals emitted tens of thousands of light-years away, and engineers have faced unprecedented challenges in constructing a giant radio receptor nestled amid mountains. From novel technological innovations to architectural challenges, we follow every step that gave birth to the biggest radio telescope ever constructed.
A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.
Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césai...
This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetar...
At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...
Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...
The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...
At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, “Near Earth Asteroids: Dr. Anne Virkki” tells the story of Re...
A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before fo...
Canada is leading the way when it comes to dark sky preservation and the fight against light polluti...
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...
The ancients hid the secrets of their incredible knowledge of astronomy in their temples and palaces...
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...
A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...
For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and th...