HDMovies

A look at the work and worlds of leading scientists and astronomers who are helping to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

Astronomers believe the universe contains at least ten times as much mass as can be seen and accounted for. How are they able to detect this missing...

At the center of galaxy NGC 1275, some 200 million light years from Earth, there might be a supermassive black hole. In a attempt to map the galaxy...

American and Japanese astronomers are followed as they seek to measure cosmic background radiation, the heat remaining from the Big Bang, by...

Gravity waves, as yet undetected but predicted by Albert Einstein, may contain the answers to many questions about the universe. Soviet scientist...

The deaths of stars allow human lives to come into being. This episode explains how and looks at the complete life cycle of the stars that make up...

Efforts to discover other planetary systems and to learn more about the planets of our own solar system are examined. Images are shown that have been...

Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

The story of the discovery and exploration of the planets, revealing the deepest secrets of our neighbors in space.

The inside stories of how the unknown engineers of NASA created such superior machines as the Saturn V moon rocket, the Space Shuttle, and the Hubble...

From the planets to the stars and out to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in a wondrous yet deadly adventure through space and...

Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning the whole of space and time -- from the nature of...