Over the centuries only few caravans dared to cross the northern route of the silk road that today lies in the territory of Kazakhstan. In this portion of Asian desert there was no place to build a majestic city nor anything else worth fighting for. Until in 1955 the Soviet government realised that those lands, far as they may be from the rest of the World, were just one step away from the Universe.

214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the im...

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

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...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...

Top Gear presenter James May presents this informative program that examines the historic moon missi...

A mysterious film, featuring three Russian cosmonauts heading into space, is found. This document is...

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

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

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite)...

Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on t...

Twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly were separated for almost a year, undergoing intensive measurem...

The history of the Ariane rocket is a space epic that has seen Europeans unite and innovate to make ...

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scie...
This film presents the principal features of the planets and the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

An IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair ...