The Universe

From Sun spots to solar eclipses, flares to storms, discover the science and history behind this celestial object that makes life on Earth exist.

Cutting-edge computer graphics how what life would be like on Mars, and imagine what kind of life forms might evolve in alien atmospheres.

Asteroids, comets, gamma ray bursts and the sun all combine to make the Earth a dangerous place to live. NASA's top brass are racing against the clock to develop technology to defend our planet.

A powerful planet of gas whose flowing colors and spots are beautiful, but contain violent storms and jet streams, Jupiter is a mini solar system, could one of its 60 moons contain life?

The moon has comforted man for thousands of years. It's been everything from a god to a compass, and the only cosmic body human beings have ever visited.

A survivor of one of the most violent "neighborhoods" in the universe, learn how Earth was created and discover what creatures hold clues to how life began.

Scorched by their proximity to the sun, Mercury and Venus are hostile worlds; one gouged with craters from cosmic collisions and the other a vortex of sulfur, carbon dioxide and acid rain.

Are the rings of Saturn a real celestial phenomenon or merely a cosmic Illusion? Does it hold the key to Earth's weather and will one of its moons supply us with all the oil we'll ever need?

To know our place in the universe, take a look far away to the realm of Alien Galaxies. Take a view of the universe through the Hubble Space telescope and go back almost all the way to the Big Bang.

Ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful. They collide, devour each other, and explode in enormous supernovas.

New discoveries regarding the Outer Planets are creating a fundamental rethinking of our solar system, including Uranus’ toxic conditions, Neptune’s barren moon, and Pluto’s 248-year orbit.

Take a tour of cosmic hot zones—black holes that “lasso” the Earth, galaxy mergers, gamma ray bursts and magnetars so strong they could wipe out data on every credit card on the planet.

In a galaxy filled with a billion stars, in a universe filled with a hundred billion galaxies, are we alone? How would the discovery of primitive or intelligent life impact humankind's view of itself?