Discovery Into Deep Space

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A look at our scouts in the Solar System. Probes that trail-blaze on Mars, plunge into Jupiter and land on Saturn's moon Titan.

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The possibility of a spaceport in Earth orbit, the colonisation of the Moon and Mars, the taming of Venus, plus an elevator into space !

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From the ancient sky-watchers of Babylon to space-age cosmology, the story of astronomy featuring Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Hubble.

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Taking a look at celestial shows, how the solar wind conjures an aurora, lunar and solar eclipses explained and a recent eclipse of the Sun.

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Exploring the threats of comets and asteroids and what would happen if the space rock that slew the dinosaurs hit New York today.

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Visible light reveals only part of the Universe. We look at how other wavelengths fill out the picture, from gamma-rays to radio.

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Is there life elsewhere in the Solar System? Could life be sustained on Jupiter's moon Europa or even Saturn's moon Titan in the future?

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Our galaxy explored and light years explained. Looking at the life and death of stars, supernovae and the clouds where stars are born.

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After astronauts fix its faulty optics, the Hubble Space Telescope peers back through time to the depths of the cosmos.

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Looking at the structure of the Universe, galaxies, clusters, strands and how we measure to a nearby galaxy and to the farthest quasar.

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The theory of the Big Bang explained and how from that cataclysmic explosion the Universe continues to expand, but will it stop and reverse?

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Although invisible, black holes betray their presence, which is the same with dark matter: the missing 90% of the Universe.