ORBIT: A Journey Around Earth in Real Time

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.

In an age when misinformation, alternative facts, and conspiracy theories have become mainstream, UFOs have risen to become one of the most-talked...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused...

On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kennedy to witness one of the great spectacles of the...

At 38, Thomas Pesquet is the youngest French astronaut to be selected for a 180 days mission in the ISS. Oleg Novitskiy, the Russian pilot and the...

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our...

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

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Venus and Mars, and find proof of new planets and...

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.