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.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary year, ESO in 2012 released the documentary Europe to the Stars — E...
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...
An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...
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...
Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from...
For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and th...
The ancients hid the secrets of their incredible knowledge of astronomy in their temples and palaces...
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the...
Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the Ja...
Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the Amer...
This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the...
Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, ...
This series also covers the essential concepts of astronomy: gravity, the light spectrum, Earth's ma...
Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21s...