Astronomy Videos

Explore the heavens with today's tools like the Hubble and other space-orbiting telescopes.

Apollo 11's Lunar landing is a dangerous mission without alarms going off. Getting close to the Moon's surface, the astronauts receive a program warn...

In this video, we see NASA's compilation of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's walks on the Moon during the world's first manned "moon landing.

At 02:56 UTC, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on Earth's Moon. It was still July 20, in North America, at the moment the first human being became a "Man o...

Scientists predicted that Asteroid 2012 DA 14 - about half the size of a football field - would fly past Earth on the 15th of February, 2013.

On the 15th of February, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA 14 was expected to travel within the Earth-Moon system.

Astronomers around the world expected that Asteroid 2012 DA 14 would be approximately 17,200 miles from the Earth's surface when it passed overhead on...

Asteroids are space rocks which travel extremely fast.

The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...

Celebrating 2000 Martian days of exploring the Red Planet, Curiosity is a moving science lab, considerably different from "Spirit" and "Opportunity" b...

Is math the world's universal language? Can we understand the natural world by using math? Discover the stories behind five "beautiful equations."

On the 7th of January, 1610, Galileo turned his telescope to the sky and discovered that Jupiter had three moons.

Newton discovered the concept of gravity, but no one before Einstein figured out what caused gravity.

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