Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into ...

If you're a space geek like me, who loves staring up at the stars and wondering what's out there, there's always a lingering set of existential questions that will remain unanswered for a long time: ...

"Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build" debuts Nov. 5, 2025 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. "Operation Space Station: Science and Survival" drops Nov. 12, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET. Both will stream at PBS.org/NOVA, ...

In this short NASA documentary, storm researcher Tim Samaras describes how satellite imaging can help predict tornadoes. Because it's unclear exactly how various weather conditions come together to ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu, scientists expected a gentle landing. Instead, the probe sank deep into the surface — as if the ground had turned to liquid. For a ...

The Voyagers, an experimental documentary by Penny Lane, tells the story of the NASA project to launch two spacecraft carrying golden records holding a wealth of human culture into space in 1977.