Space

Watch nowThe Day the Sun Blew Up a Minefield4 Aug 1972 · Hon La, North VietnamWatch nowHow the Moon Was BornAbout 4.5 billion years ago · Earth and MoonPremieres 20 NovA Moon of Jupiter Clocked the Speed of Light1676 · Paris ObservatoryComing soonFixing a 1977 Computer One Light-Day AwayNov 2023 – Apr 2024 · Voyager 1, interstellar spacePremieres 19 NovHow the Solar System Was Born4,567 million years ago · Allende, Mexico, 1969Premieres 18 NovThe Cannon That Tried to Shoot Into Space18 November 1966 · Yuma, Arizona (Project HARP, 1962–1967)Coming soonThe Night It Rained Stars on America1833 · Eastern United States

Coming up

• A 24-Year-Old Found Pluto by Flicking Between Photos 18 Feb 1930 · Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
• A 77-Year-Old Went Back to Orbit as an Experiment Oct–Nov 1998 · STS-95, Space Shuttle Discovery
• A Belgian Priest Found the Expanding Universe First 1927 · Leuven and the Solvay Conference, Brussels
• A Comet Older Than the Sun Passed Through 1 Jul – Oct 2025 · discovered by the ATLAS telescope, Chile
• A King Built a Sundial 27 Metres Tall 1734 · Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, India
• A Student's Side Project Flung Voyager to Neptune Summer 1961 · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
• Did the Dogon Know Sirius Had a Hidden Twin? 1931–1991 · Bandiagara, Mali
• Ghost Particles Arrived Before the Supernova Light 23–24 Feb 1987 · Large Magellanic Cloud; detectors in Japan, the USA and Russia
• He Went Looking for a Lost City and Found a Meteorite 1932 · Rub' al Khali, Saudi Arabia
• India Reached Mars for Less Than a Hollywood Film 24 September 2014 · Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan), from Sriharikota
• John Glenn's Heat Shield Scare Was a Bad Switch 20 Feb 1962 · Friendship 7, Earth orbit
• Kepler Saved His Mother From the Witch Hunters 1615–1621 · Leonberg, Württemberg