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.
Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situa...
Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most dis...
Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...
Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...
The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens abov...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césai...
Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moo...
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view...
The film traces the story of the Chicago-born astronomer George Ellery Hale, considered the father o...
The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...
At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...
Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the Amer...
Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the Ja...