From the mission that saw Pluto for the first time to the Mars rovers, a new breed of explorers are risking their careers, and even their lives, to lead humanity to worlds we have never seen and tackle the mysteries of life itself.

World scientists are searching for Dark Energy, the biggest challenge of physics; In Europe, a multi-billion dollar satellite will map the sky from space.

An exploration of the dramatic fate of our future descendants, the technology they’ll need to survive the end of this world billions of years from now and our options for colonizing and starting again on a new planet somewhere far from Earth.

A soaring quest through the solar system’s exotic and hidden water realms, from the deep seas below the icy crust of Europa to the vast prehistoric oceans that once existed on Mars billions of years ago.

Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, the Voyager spacecraft is going to leave the Solar System to tell the incredible story of a mission that was only supposed to last five years but is still going today.

The story of how a large aerospace company, BAE Systems, began a secret project to counter the force of gravity while NASA simultaneously ran a similar ‘Breakthrough Propulsion Physics’ program.

The efforts of the U.S. government and others to combat the threat posed by space junk, which could derail the future of space travel if left unchecked.

The search for the first stars of the universe.

When the sun flares up, billions of tons of superheated gas and intense radiation are propelled toward Earth; experts are trying to predict what is coming toward the Earth and how to prepare for this threat.

An in-depth look at how NASA is preparing for its most ambitious and dangerous mission yet; to land a human being on the surface of Mars.

The discovery of exoplanets pushes scientists to reexamine the origin of the Solar System; the evidence infers a tale of unrestrained collisions and chaos.

Scientists are working to determine if parallel universes exist.

Scientists are finally on the hunt to finally crack the dark secrets of the atoms that make up the universe.

Inside the supermassive black hole that sits in the middle of our galaxy.