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.

Travel to the edges of our solar system with this unique blend of photographic images, video and com...

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...

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

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the univ...

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

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

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

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...

The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...

The Wonder of it All focuses on the human side of the men behind the Apollo missions through candid ...

Told through the tales of love of a retiring film projectionist and a late-blooming actress, the sho...

A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest ...

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

This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scien...

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

For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits...