The film was presented by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum,[1] and played in IMAX theaters worldwide.

Cosmic Voyage takes viewers on a journey through forty-two orders of magnitude, beginning at a celebration in Venice, Italy and slowly zooming out into the edge of the observable universe.

Then the view descends back to Earth, into a raindrop in Belgium, down to the level of subatomic particles (quarks).

In addition, the film offers some brief insight on the Big Bang theory, black holes, and the development of the Solar System.

It also simulates a journey through Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator in Chicago, where an atom collision is depicted.