Space's Deepest Secrets

- Season 1

(2016)

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.

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 the secrets of the greatest enigmas in the cosmos, from giant black holes to supernovas.

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 super heated 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.

The genius of Einstein's theory of relativity was the first evidence that black holes might exist, but scientists still do not know what really happens inside of one. Follow the researchers investigating the dark secrets of this mysterious phenomenon.