The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scientists have labored for years to bring a crew safely home in what is essentially a meteorite, wrapped in a cocoon of fire, hurtling towards earth six times faster than the fastest bullet. Scientific experts from NASA explain the significance of Columbia's events as they unfolded, offer insights into what may have caused them and how those key events contributed to the shuttle’s ultimate destruction.

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...

A GCSE short film project studying depictions of outer space in movies.

Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...

National Geographic and NASA are sending you into space - live! For the first time ever, board the I...

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

NASA's biggest spacecraft, Cassini, plunges into Saturn in the final act of a 20-year mission showca...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

The Space Race comes alive through the eyes of the ultimate insider - retired NASA Mission Control F...

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer T...

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...

Did Mars ever have life on it? To answer this question, Europe and Russia have launched a unique and...

Explores the Shuttle Program through the eyes of some of the exceptional men and women who worked be...

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist i...
On December 21, Nicolas Vanier will set off with his pack on a new expedition called L’Odyssée sauva...

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...