Our Solar System

What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused...

Go higher, faster and farther with the Smithsonian as they explore the dreams of flight.

One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in...

Cormac McCarthy has spent the last 25 years writing his novels at the mountain top retreat of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico. An...

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made...

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each segment of Where Did We Come From? He will guide us as he explores...

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is...

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving...

In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a process of non-thinking called faith'. He describes...

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...