Three billion miles away a grand-piano-sized spacecraft is speeding through the outer solar system at nearly 1,000 miles per minute. After nearly a decade in space, the New Horizons space probe will have just 86 seconds to complete its primary mission: Discover the planet Pluto. This time-sensitive special will showcase the first quality pictures of Pluto that the probe will capture.

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

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

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

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

Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his part...

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

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

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

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

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from th...

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

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a ...

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater

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