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.

Venture into deep space for a fascinating look at asteroids, their cosmic origins and the potential ...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...

Relive humankind's incredible accomplishment of walking on the moon in this program that presents hi...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer T...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

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

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

A pilot for an unproduced British science fiction space adventure series.

The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grac...

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

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

The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens abov...

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