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Air Date: 2009-07-20
Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the Moon by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and crater...
Air Date: 2009-07-27
Massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away... an angry sun vents its rage. Dark...
Air Date: 2009-08-12
Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? Hurrica...
Air Date: 2009-08-20
From the Cassini spacecraft comes one of the greatest photographic collections. Scientists are using it to uncover a ...
Air Date: 2009-09-27
Our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to harbor millions of black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, i...
Air Date: 2009-10-20
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the first micro-moments of our universe. Just as scientists be...
Air Date: 2009-11-10
How long will the Universe as we know it survive? The answer depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory about how bl...
Air Date: 2009-11-18
It's the ultimate buddy movie. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the second pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the moo...
Air Date: 2009-12-09
Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of our Milky Way ga...
Air Date: 2009-12-21
Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise? If so, does anything still live somewhere underground? The se...
Air Date: 2010-01-08
What is the search for Earth-like planets telling us about our place in the cosmos? Is our Earth one of countless lif...
Air Date: 2010-02-08
Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nea...
Air Date: 2010-06-09
Long ago, from the fires of our Sun's birth, twin planets emerged: Venus and Earth. Nature draped one world in the gr...
Air Date: 2010-09-10
What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of t...
Air Date: 2010-11-23
Explore the biggest question of all. How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern t...
Air Date: 2011-02-21
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. Scientists are beginning to envision what the...
Air Date: 2011-08-19
One of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be may finally be yielding to human investigation. Scient...
Air Date: 2011-10-14
Cosmology has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at ...
Air Date: 2012-05-11
Over the next decade, the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and even private companies, are planning to sen...
Air Date: 2012-09-23
What are the energy extremes that define our universe? And how much power can the cosmos wield? Climb a ladder of inc...
Air Date: 2012-11-29
Spy satellites first saw these brief but extremely bright flashes of light in the 1960s. For three decades, gamma ray...
Air Date: 2013-02-15
Join a small team of rocket designers as they open a window into the future of space travel.
Air Date: 2013-04-06
The two Voyager spacecraft are part of an ancient quest to push beyond our boundaries... to see what lies beyond the ...
Air Date: 2013-10-04
There are signs that Earth’s great stores of ice are beginning to melt. With sea levels beginning to rise, scientists...
Air Date: 2014-02-03
Follow Dr. Ben Longmier and his team into the rugged Alaskan wilderness on a quest to build a whole new type of rocke...
Air Date: 2014-05-23
They are eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic...
Air Date: 2014-07-21
The episode of Cosmic Journeys explores the intersection of paleoclimate and current climate science. Through its tur...
Air Date: 2014-09-19
Are the universe and its physical laws so fine-tuned that the rise of life is inevitable? Or is life a fluke, a lucky...
Air Date: 2014-10-29
Explore the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long ...
Air Date: 2014-12-13
This staggeringly visual feast of a documentary Brings cutting-edge findings of modern astronomy to life with state-o...
Air Date: 2015-07-10
Where do you look to glimpse the birth of a solar system like ours? Our sun is thought to have formed along with a ra...
Air Date: 2015-07-31
Since its launch 25 Years ago, the Hubble Telescope has returned images of unprecedented beauty of a dynamic and chan...
Air Date: 2015-12-18
May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadl...
Air Date: 2016-05-20
Asteroids racing through the solar system have smashed into Earth before. What are the chances we'll get hit again? A...
Air Date: 2016-06-17
Astronomers are probing the high-energy cosmic frontier with a series of key missions: Fermi, Swift, Chandra, NuSTAR...
Air Date: 2016-06-23
Planet hunters have detected nearly 5000 confirmed and candidate planets beyond our solar system. Most sun-like stars...
Air Date: 2017-11-13
A startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earth's largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation. Two...