Join a lovable ragtag group of aliens who crash land on Earth and learn how to restore the forest life support system inside their spaceship.
Recommended for ages 4–7
Experience a new interactive full dome film about a family of aliens who land on Earth and have to restore the forest in their spaceship to save the day. Then join one of our friendly Rangers for an exclusive, family-friendly exploration of real forest ecosystems! Ages: 4-7
Journey with a curious girl and her crow companion as they take you on an immersive, animated adventure into the human brain, exploring how the brain works and what makes human brains so special. Fly through brains and experience illusions on a grand scale as you learn how your brain makes you, you and that, ultimately, we each have the power to change our brains. Ages: 7-12
People everywhere look up at the stars and find stories, patterns, and even clues to help us find our way. In this show, we’ll meet amazing animals, clever sky-watchers, and colorful stars that help us remember just how connected we are to the Earth - and to each other. Ages: 7+
Discover what it means to live in our connected world with Habitat Earth, an award-winning film that takes viewers on a journey through the vast networks of life on Earth. Age Group: 7+
Ages 6+ | From the dawn of time, Africa has looked to the skies above for inspiration and guidance. Stargazers of Africa is a journey connecting the stars, moon and planets to the people across this great continent—from long ago to the stargazers of today.
For several centuries, we have become accustomed to artificial light sources after dark, considering them natural. But living things, both plants and animals, have adapted to the natural cycle of day and night for millions of years and our natural rhythms work in accordance with sunrise and sunset. Does disruption of this cycle affect us and the environment? Explore what is hidden under the term light pollution and what each of us can do about it. Ages 10+
Join us on a journey to the Red Planet—the farthest voyage ever made by humans. What does it take to make it to Mars? In this new production we’ll discover the many challenges astronauts will face and how creativity, communication, and collaboration are essential for deep space exploration. Ages 7+
Join a curious girl and her crow companion on a journey on a fun and immersive together as we zoom along the paths of neurons, fly through brains and experience illusions on a grand scale. You’ll learn how your brain makes you, you and that, ultimately, we each have the power to change our brains. Ages 8+
Connect with the remote wilderness to see the animals, landscapes, and people that define the Last Frontier. Places that make Alaska... Alaska. Age Group: 4+
Journey to three world-class observatories in Chile’s rugged Andes Mountains and arid Atacama Desert, perfect conditions for astronomical research. Along the way, you’ll meet an inspiring cast of astronomers, engineers, technicians, and support staff who keep these mega-machines running. Age Group: 11+
Using motion capture to bring characters to life, this beautifully produced fulldome feature film has a child-centred story that will enchant family audiences. Magic Globe’s engaging story has a clear educational structure, designed to interest and challenge children from 5 to 12 years. On vacation at her grandpa’s, a little girl Mia accidentally discovers a mysterious piece of astronomical machinery. Edek, Mia’s eccentric uncle, tricks the girl into using the tool’s secret powers to change the world’s seasons. She quickly realizes the consequences of what they are going to do, but Edek doesn’t want to let the plan go.
Whether earthly or alien, all life leaves a trace. Join narrator Daveed Diggs on a journey through space and time to discover how life makes Earth liveable, where it could be found elsewhere in the cosmos, and what new technologies we might use to find it. Along the way, you'll learn how light and color can help us spot other living worlds even from vast distances—and develop a new appreciation for the one-of-a-kind planet right beneath our feet. Living Worlds is a production of the California Academy of Sciences and presented by the Audubon Planetarium.
Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street in Big Bird's Adventure: One World, One Sky. Big Bird, Elmo, and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, as they take you on a journey of discovery to learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, the Sun, and the Moon. Age Group: 4+
Join us in an international collaboration focused to increase understanding about cultural and indigenous astronomy, its historical and modern applications, and how our One Sky connects us all. Age Group: 6+
Enjoy a guided meditation experience from Ball State University with the program “Sunset Meditation.” View an amazing sunset as you travel from the Grand Canyon to the North Pole. Then relax under a night sky filled with stars – and even glimpses of the Northern Lights. Age Group: 12+
The Sun has shone on our world for four and a half billion years. The light that warms our skin today has been felt by every person who has ever lived. It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The passage of the Sun’s fiery disc across the sky — day by day, month by month — was the only way to keep track of time for countless past civilizations. The Sun consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen each second and is 500 times as massive as all the planets combined. Discover the secrets of our star in this planetarium show and experience never-before-seen images of the Sun’s violent surface. Age Group: 6+
"SOFIA", the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, gathers thermal radiation from distant celestial objects unobstructed by the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere. Among other things, it can be used to observe the nurseries of young stars in distant gas nebulae that remain hidden in the spectrum of visible light. Our production team was able to shoot impressive full-dome videos during two flights with SOFIA in September 2018, allowing you to experience the flight almost live. Join us on a red-eye flight aboard the flying observatory SOFIA to unravel the mysteries of star birth from 50,000 feet above the sea. Age Group: 7+
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before travelling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone's retina. Join us as we explore some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain. Age Group: 10+
Satellites are with us all day. When we wake up, go to school, to work or for a trip, and when we spend time with our families in the evening, too. And at night they guard us while we sleep. Without them, we would not have navigation in our cars or mobile phones, accurate weather forecasts, or many other everyday technologies we rely on. Age Group: 8+
Phantom of the Universe showcases an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. The show reveals the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term “dark matter.” It describes the astral choreography witnessed by Vera Rubin in the Andromeda galaxy and then plummets deep underground to see the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth, housed in a former gold mine. From there, it journeys across space and time to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, speeding alongside particles before they collide in visually stunning explosions of light and sound, while learning how scientists around the world are collaborating to track down the constituents of dark matter. Age Group: 8+
Out There: The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds will transport viewers from this world to entirely new and foreign ones. From the views of early civilizations, to the future space missions that will observe the Universe in greater-than-ever detail and travel to the surfaces and oceans of moons in our Solar System, a huge diversity of different worlds is out there, just waiting to be discovered. Age Group: 6+
The Hot and Energetic Universe uses immersive visualizations and real images to showcase the achievements of the modern astronomy, the most advanced terrestrial and orbital observatories, the basic principles electromagnetic radiation, and the natural phenomena related to the High Energy Astrophysics. Age Group: 6+
From the colorful birthplaces and burial grounds of stars, to beyond the Milky Way, to the unimaginable immensity of myriad galaxies. Learn about a journey of celestial discovery, from the theories of the ancient Greek astronomers to today’s grandest telescopes. From Earth to the Universe. Age Group: 10+
Join Kari Byron from Crash Test World and MythBusters as she launches us on a journey beyond the Earth towards a sustainable future in space. NASA’s 21st century Artemis program, named after the Greek moon Goddess and twin of Apollo, is the next step in our mission to explore the universe. Age Group: 8+
Direct from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, join us as we explore the Solar System with a bear named Ted (and companion Plant!), learning about the things we find there and how they affect us. Ted’s Space Adventure is an interactive, presenter-led show with music and rhyme and plenty of charm. Age Group: 4-7
Join Lucia, a Ph.D. student in physics, on an exploration of how gravitational waves are formed, how they move through the universe, and how scientists like her work to hear them. Age Group: 8+
What keeps Galaxies together? What are the building blocks of the Universe? What makes the Universe look the way it looks today? Researchers all around the world try to answer these questions. We know today that approximately a quarter of the Universe is filled with a mysterious glue: Dark Matter. We know that it is out there. But we have no idea what it is made out of. This planetarium show takes you on the biggest quest of contemporary astrophysics. You will see why we know that Dark Matter exists, and how this search is one of the most challenging and exciting searches science has to offer. Join the scientists on their hunt for Dark Matter with experiments in space and deep underground. Will they be able to solve the Dark Matter Mystery? Age Group: 10+
5000 Eyes: DESI With the efforts of an international team and 5000 robots, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is creating the most detailed map of our nearby universe. DESI's 5000 independently operated robots can measure the light from thousands of galaxies at once. Join us as we explore the science, instrument, and people behind this global endeavor. Age Group: 10+
Mayan Archaeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe takes a tour of six Mayan temples: San Gervasio, Chichen Itzá, Uxmal, Edzná, Palenque and Bonampak where the spectator dives into a Mayan world of knowledge about the importance of the orientations of its temples in relation to the movement of some stars like the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Age Group: 6+
