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.

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

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

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...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

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

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

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

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...
To celebrate its 50th anniversary year, ESO in 2012 released the documentary Europe to the Stars — E...

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before fo...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater

This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scien...

For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and th...

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of h...

The loss of the Bill E. Gordon radio telescope has left a void in the world of radio science, the mo...

Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the Ja...