About The Space Backyard

The Space Backyard makes documentaries about the missions, discoveries and strange worlds in our cosmic neighbourhood, and explains them in plain words.

Space is the biggest story there is, and most of it is happening right now: a spacecraft from 1977 still calling home from interstellar space, an ocean hidden under the ice of a moon of Jupiter, a probe arriving at an asteroid that humanity deliberately hit. We pick the stories people are talking about, research them carefully from NASA, ESA and peer-reviewed sources, and turn them into documentaries you can watch on YouTube or read here.

What you’ll find here

Documentaries as stories. Every video on the channel becomes a full written article, with the video embedded, so you can watch, read, or both.

Space news. Short, clear updates on the biggest stories in space, with links to the original sources.

Live tools. Like the Voyager 1 tracker on the homepage, which counts its distance from Earth in real time.

How we work

Facts are checked against primary sources: space agency releases, mission teams and published research. Images come from NASA, ESA and other agencies and are credited under each picture. When something is uncertain or still debated, we say so.

Questions, corrections or ideas for the next video? Get in touch.