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The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...

For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and the age of the universe itself; NASA astronauts...

In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe,...

Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors...

A half-century after American astronauts walked on the Moon, NASA and its international partners are taking the dream of Apollo a giant step further....

John Dobson, an 89 year old with a white ponytail and knack for comedy, is the inventor of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which revolutionized...

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before focussing on a particular house in the suburbs with...

A short documentary of filmmaker Patricio Guzmán interviewing local astronomers.

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground,...

This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scientific importance, the technological...

214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the impact that killed the dinosaurs occurred where the...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive substance that physicists and astronomers believe...

How can we probe the far reaches of the Cosmos to decode the mystery of our origins? In Grenoble, the capital of the French Alps, or from the peaks...

An exploration of the territorial complexities of the emerging astro-industry in the Chilean Desert.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary year, ESO in 2012 released the documentary Europe to the Stars — ESO's first 50 years of Exploring the Southern...

The film traces the story of the Chicago-born astronomer George Ellery Hale, considered the father of astrophysics, as he struggles personally and...