The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where she alights on the desert- and mountain-dwelling astronomers, fishermen, miners, and cowboys who live their lives with reverence and awe for the skies.

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

214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the im...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view...

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

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

When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves to New York City and discovers skies almost completely devoid of sta...

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

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

Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, ...
Three billion miles away a grand-piano-sized spacecraft is speeding through the outer solar system a...