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- An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth.
- A space colony family struggles to survive when a spy/accidental stowaway throws their ship hopelessly off course.
- Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
- A space trucker and his cute fiancee are on their way from a space station to Earth with an unknown cargo. When space pirates hijack them, 5000 disintegrator robots are found in the cargo.
- The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
- Set right after the events of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999), a team of soldiers and scientists led by Capt. Matthew Gideon have five years to find a cure for an alien plague decimating Earth.
- A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
- A secret organisation gains control over the American nuclear weapons. A journalist ventures out to stop them.
- Biomimetics uses nature as a starting point for ideas ranging from different ways of exploring Mars to how to design a city of the future.
- John Glenn's first flight ushered in the modern era of space exploration for America. His landmark return to space represented the final chapter of space exploration in the 20th century.
- Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the science of gravity, recreating ground-breaking scientific experiments including the moment when Galileo first discovered how to measure gravity.
- Solarmax is a 40-minute giant-screen documentary that tells the story of humankind's struggle to understand the sun. The film will take audiences on an incredible voyage from pre-history to the leading edge of today's contemporary solar science.
- A look at the Drake equation, developed by Dr. Frank Drake as a way to think about the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy that could exist and communicate with us.
- Scenes taken at Mount Palomar show our own galaxy and the galactic systems millions of light years away. The story of creation is told in the setting of the Earth's "oldest living things," the giant redwoods of California. Billy Graham demonstrates the continuity of Christian witness down through ancient and modern times to the present day.
- An unusual star is claimed to have appeared in the sky at the time of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. This movie is an investigation into the story found in the Biblical Gospel of Matthew about this Star of Bethlehem. It includes the words of Roman and Jewish historians alongside those of ancient prophets. Come learn about this ancient mystery and draw your own conclusions. If clear, see the stars over Vestal and other celestial objects.
- A documentary about the making of the Apollo 13 film based on true events.
- Get ready for the trip of a lifetime. The adventure begins at Cape Canaveral in the final months of 1996. Then eight months later, on July 4, 1997, an alien object will streak through Mars' dark sky, glowing bright as its heat shield encounters the planet's thin atmosphere. Decelerating with a parachute and small retro-rockets, the spacecraft will slow, and then a new type of airbag will deploy. It'll touch down, bounce as high as a ten story building, and tumble over rocks and boulders. After this bumpy landing, the airbags deflate, 3 petals unfold, and Mars Pathfinder will awaken on the Red Planet
- A robot motorcycle cop comes to grief while chasing a speeder along a Western desert highway.
- Photographer of the universe, sentinel of the past, watcher of the mankind...that is the Hubble, the 'eye in the sky' of the planet Earth.
- A piece of abstract cinema by John Whitney, to music by Catalan Spanish composer Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783).
- An award-winning 32 minute docu-fantasy that takes the creation cycle of the seasons from poetic thought through finished ballet featuring the award-winning poetry of Gus Nicholson, Alexei Karpov's award-winning score and David Taylor's award-winning choreography. A great study tool on the use of language and imagination and a delight to the senses.
- Examines a theory that many earthquakes are related, and that they can 'trigger' other quakes, thus providing a method for predicting earthquake occurrences, both temporally and spatially.
- Mulder accesses a facility that may hold a cure for Scully's illness. Scully performs an experiment in hopes of determining the origin of the disease.
- 1985–1986TV EpisodeGalileo's imaginative experiments proved that all bodies fall with the same constant acceleration.
- The function of mathematics in physical science and the derivative as a practical tool.
- Galileo risks his favored status to answer the questions of the universe with his law of inertia.
- Physics must explain not only why and how much, but also where and which way.
- Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration.
- Newton and Leibniz arrive at the conclusion that differentiation and integration are inverse processes.
- The Planets examines the history of rocketry and the early exploration of the solar system.
- NOVA follows a team of scientists as the monitor the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit runs into some problems, but Opportunity takes a photograph that may confirm the existence of water on Mars.
- In a galaxy filled with a billion stars, in a universe filled with a hundred billion galaxies--are we alone? SETI--the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence--is a privately funded project using radio telescopes.
- Last century, earthquakes killed over one million, and it is predicted that this century might see ten times as many deaths. Yet when an earthquake strikes, it always takes people by surprise. So why hasn't science worked out how to predict when and where the next big quake is going to happen? This is the story of the men and women who chase earthquakes and try to understand this mysterious force of nature. Journeying to China's Sichuan Province, which still lies devastated by the earthquake that struck in May 2008, as well as the notorious San Andreas Fault in California, Horizon asks why science has so far fallen short of answering this fundamental question.
- All life on Earth needs water so the search for aliens in the solar system has followed the search for water. We examine the patterns in the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa, which reveal an ocean far below with more potentially life-giving water than all the oceans on Earth. But of all the wonders of the solar system forged by the laws of nature, Brian reveals the greatest wonder of them all.
- This program examines some recent scientific theories of the universe and conceptions about God they may suggest.
- 2010–201745mTV-PG8.1 (203)TV EpisodeThis program delves deep into the atom to find the ultimate constituents of matter focusing finally on the theoretical Higgs Boson.
- The story of how stars were made by the Universe and how Stars then went on to engineer everything else in that very universe. They changed the Universe by spawning further generations of stars, then planets and eventually the building blocks of life.
- Is our solar system unique? Since the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star, some 280 alien solar systems have been identified. It's only by looking at solar systems far beyond our own, that we can understand how remarkable our universe is.
- Adam and Jamie try to blow manhole covers in the air with explosions, while the build team try various tricks with truck bed liner.
- 2017–TV EpisodeA science-mad A.I. system uses song to explain the electromagnetic spectrum to a computer technician.
- Spacetime is the secret structure that controls our universe, time, light, and energy.