Discover how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in this half-hour KQED Science documentary. From space tourism to mining the moon to companies ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300-billion global space industry. Meet a new generation of entrepreneurs, sprung from the high-tech culture of Silicon Valley, who are venturing into the new "wild west" of space exploration in search of their space gold. But are there new risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments?

The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

Magical, autonomous, all-powerful… Artificial intelligences feed our dreams as well as our nightmare...

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech ex...

A tale of how the great vision and epic failure of General Magic, the "greatest dead company in Sili...

Documentary telling the story of silicon chip inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's digital wo...

Best friends Hazel Findlay and Maddy Cope journey to the rocky outer reaches of Mongolia, on a quixo...

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

For six weeks we explored the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak, sailboat, foot and small plane, obse...

T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the senten...

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his explo...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

Documentary correlating contemporary archaeological discoveries in the Far North with the descriptio...

A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Rooseve...