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.

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...

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

What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetar...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater

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

Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moo...

The loss of the Bill E. Gordon radio telescope has left a void in the world of radio science, the mo...

BLACK SUNS: AN ASTROPHYSICS ADVENTURE is a documentary about chasing eclipses and science dreams. It...

The Sun was born way before Man existed. What exact role did the Sun play in the emergence of life a...

Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the Ja...
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view...

For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and th...

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 ...

A short documentary about an engineer in a Chilean observatory.

A group of renowned cosmologists and astrophysicist are in search of a realistic picture of the univ...