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.

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

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer T...

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

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

It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Arm...

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

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

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

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades...

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

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

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

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Hor...

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

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the Moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years late...

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

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