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.
Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césai...
A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.
Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most dis...
Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...
At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, “Near Earth Asteroids: Dr. Anne Virkki” tells the story of Re...
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...
At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...
Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...
The Sun was born way before Man existed. What exact role did the Sun play in the emergence of life a...
It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestr...
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view...
For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and th...
Canada is leading the way when it comes to dark sky preservation and the fight against light polluti...