Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries

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.

Meet the scientists across the world on the hunt for dark energy, an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space and may be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

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 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.

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 future of space travel is under attack -- by millions of pieces of debris from old satellites and missions that surround Earth. Go inside the effort by the U.S. government and others to combat the lethal threat of space junk.

A team of scientists are looking for the very first stars in the universe, which were born moments after the Big Bang and gave creation the earliest ingredients for life. Go inside this groundbreaking quest for this pivotal moment.

New telescope technology has helped astronomers to explore the never-before-seen invisible universe. These modern marvels ushered in a new age of discovery, revealing secrets of space, from giant black holes to supernovas.

Astronomers are on the hunt for the groundbreaking discovery that confirms extraterrestrial life. Using state-of-the-art technology like the Kepler telescope, scientists examine thousands of exoplanets in search of another Earth.

Time travel is less impossible than we think, and the newest discoveries in space and theoretical physics have us on the brink of cracking one of the universe's greatest puzzles.

New discoveries reveal that our Moon could be the next home for human life, triggering a new international space race to make it the home of humanity's first space colony.

NASA's Juno mission is the closest we've ever explored Jupiter, and its incredible images reveal the Gas Giant's deepest secrets and how this deadly world helped create our solar system.

NASA's mission to Pluto gathered the first close-up pictures of this strange and distant world, and now, new discoveries and the latest science reveal the secrets of its alien features, which could point to extraterrestrial life.

New discoveries reveal that everything we know about our moon could be wrong, and now, investigators are racing to understand the mysteries of its dark and violent past.

Astronaut Mike Massimino journeys to the Sun, revealing the secrets of Earth's star and how it will one day destroy our planet.

Astronaut Mike Massimino uncovers the strange and violent birth of our solar system, and reveals how its planets were built from the wreckage bygone alien worlds.