Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into soul-numbing technobabble. That sad fate is happily avoided by the absorbing Once ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.

Personal tales of bravery, tragedy, daring and triumph, United in Space unveils the remarkable story of one of humanity’s ...

NASA has edged closer to its goal of sending humans back to the moon, thanks to work being done by astronauts who live in space for months at a time, conducting experiments and doing medical research.

A new CNN documentary series that examines the 2003 Space Shuttle disaster is the latest effort by the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet to help its original-production arm regain momentum. “Space ...

"The first Asian Jew in fake space" — that's how Josh Burstein introduced himself to me when we hopped on the phone earlier this week. The special lives up to its tagline: "How to space quarantine." ...

Head outside on a dark and cloudless night and you’ll see constellations such as Orion and Ursa Major. Take a long-exposure photograph and the stars will turn to streaks as the Earth rotates beneath ...

"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, ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A bold vision to solve one of humanity's most pressing challenges—the need for clean, sustainable energy—takes center stage in the new documentary "Bright ...

LONDON (AP) — You won’t see Tom Hanks on one of those space tourism flights that whisk celebrities and millionaires on a suborbital jaunt for a few hours. He says it wouldn’t be enough time out of ...