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 wonders of the universe have long propelled our insatiable desire to learn more about who we are...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from th...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...

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

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

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

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...

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

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

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

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...

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

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...

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

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