Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern that mirrors the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year cycle of the moon. How did an ancient civilization, with no known written language, arrange its buildings into a virtual celestial calendar, spanning an area roughly the size of Ireland?

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

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...

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...

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic...

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...

Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico rai...

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Hor...

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts ...

Professional, native and antiquarian researchers combine to investigate the archaeological history a...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

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

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...

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...