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?

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

Shows students and archaeologists unearthing the remains of an ancient Indian culture in southwester...

Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast...

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

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

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

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

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

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...

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

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

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

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

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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

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