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.

A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest ...

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...

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

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

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

National Geographic and NASA are sending you into space - live! For the first time ever, board the I...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

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

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

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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