Starlit Minute

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

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...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Venus and Mars, and find proof of new planets and...

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

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

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

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

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...

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet.

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in...

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

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the continental United States and place the planets...