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.

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

In unusual circumstances, scientists from different countries work together to achieve a common scie...

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

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

A UFO enthusiast interviews Dan Aykroyd on the subject of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.

The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female a...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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