A history of the telescope and a look at the James Webb telescope, and at the universe through the eyes of scientists and telescopes since the beginning.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the Ja...

The ancients hid the secrets of their incredible knowledge of astronomy in their temples and palaces...

For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits...

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

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...

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

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

Canada is leading the way when it comes to dark sky preservation and the fight against light polluti...

Wylie carries a telescope through the streets of Los Angeles to offer passersby a new and closer loo...

A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view...