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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...
This film presents the principal features of the planets and the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scie...

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before fo...

Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-yea...

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of h...

200 years after Chopin's birth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, like a giant piano, took the music of C...

Luca Parmitano is the first italian astronaut to perform an extravehicular activity, currently part ...