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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

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...

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

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

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

Join our host on the International Space Station of the year 2050. Marvel at the three-dimensional s...

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

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

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

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite)...