Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company’s first crew of tourists to space, has successfully launched and landed.

Near the start of the 20th century, a mysterious and deadly virus terrified Americans, particularly infecting young kids: Polio. Correspondent Rita Braver looks at the scientific arsenal brought to combat the epidemic and develop a vaccine, and talks with documentary filmmaker Carl Kurlander ("The S

A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1.5 million kilometers away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood.

100 million pieces of “space junk” currently orbit our planet at 17,500 miles per hour. Adrift investigates the fate of these interstellar objects, which threaten to collide with and destroy satellites and spacecraft.

Director and producer Cath Le Couteur recruited Sally Potter to narrate the fil

East Side Access is the massive mainline rail project New York City has been working on for the past few decades, and it'll bring a brand new terminal to Grand Central Terminal, alongside Long Island Rail Road services. The culmination of the East Side Access project will be the opening of Grand Cen...

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been completely enveloped in silver and blue fabric. The installation, named “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped”, was first conceived by late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1961. Six decades later, the project was finally brought to life with three months of construct

The Secret File is a compilation of photographs that have been circulated in the internet through viral marketing. It seems that the photos emerged from secret files of governments and agencies from around the world. They have been compiled here not only for pleasure and enjoyment, but to makes u...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, directing with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, interrogates this question and its devastating implications in Totally Under Control. With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Gibney exposes a system-w

“If we want to leave our children, grandchildren and future generations a healthy planet, we’ve got to respond now to the challenge of climate change. “ – Robert Redford. From every part of our world, in our own way, we can do something to act on climate. But we need our world leaders to do the s

The moon will pass through Earth's shadow tonight in the only total lunar eclipse of 2019 and you won't want to miss it! If you do, you'll have to wait two years for the next one. And if you're in North America, you'd have to wait even longer, until 2022!

The partial stage of the lunar eclipse b...