TV Guide for Today Saturday 10 in Pluto TV Space

It powers the machinery of nature; our weather, encourages and sustains life on land and at sea.

For an instrument first developed as recently as the 17th century, the telescope has travelled a long way.

The Ionisphere, where the Earth interfaces with space, is little understood, it effects radio communications, GPS signals and satellites alike.

From the beginnings of our Solar System four and half billion years ago there remains tantalizing clues to its evolution; remnent debris: asteroids and comets.

Our solar system is vast, from our own star the Sun to Earth is nearly 150 million kilometers or 1 Astronomical Unit.

They orbit between us and our Star, the inner worlds; hidden within the sun's glare often only visible at sunrise or sunset.

As the latest successes and failures come and go Mars continues to give up her secrets.

The next generation of Earth observation satellites are now in place maintaining the continuity of long-term climate data, in particular the planets rising temperatures and related ocean levels.

The Cassini space craft has completed its mission over Saturn, Juno has reached its target and has commenced its scientific observations of the giant planet Jupiter.

How do astronauts cope with living in space?

It has fired our imaginations for millennia, Mars, the God of War and the source of Man's science fictional demise.

The Japanese Asteroid sample return mission has reached its target and is surveying the space rock ready to dip down and take a sample.

Series introduction and the study of Earth from orbit.

How do astronauts cope with living in space? The unique environment, the lack of taste in their food and the smell of canned air all contribute to the stresses of living and working in space.

Perhaps that American politician was right. There are indeed things we know we don’t know.

Two new space telescopes are in orbit and completing their shakedown; Gaia and TESS they too will be joined by the James Webb Telescope.

Juice and the Europa Clipper are two missions to our Solar System’s largest planet.

The night sky is a time machine. The further we look out into the universe the further back in time we reach.

Stars are a bit like human beings. They can be warm or cold, they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.

Venus is a planet closest to Earth in distance and size, it once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds.

As scientists and astronomers peer closer at nearby stars with ever more fidelity they are discovering planets; exo planets, worlds outside our own solar system.

Projects in the works. SunRISE, SPHEREx, NEOS and others, their mission to expand our knowledge of Earth, the surrounding space, Dark Matter, and the earliest galaxies. N

We’re looking hard, but the numbers aren’t stacking up, is life on other planets that hard to find? Even signals from an advanced race elude us.

The ISS is the workhorse of the international spacefaring community, but its days are numbered. R

The latest updates on the new space hardware about to launch us into the next generation of space flight some rockets and capsules are on time others not so fortunate.

Cosmic and x rays, these mysterious and highly powerful particles from deep space are being investigated to finally discover where they come from.

LISA pathfinder, has led the way for a space based gravity wave detector, what are gravity waves and why are they so hard to detect?

NASA’S Parker Solar Probe Mission is on its way and will be shortly followed by Europe’s Solar probe Mission.

Does our society have the capacity to live up to Star Trek's optimistic vision for humanity's future? William Shatner takes us on a journey to find out whether art has imitated life in the years since the world-renowned TV series premiered in 1966.

Project Gemini: Docking and EVA - In the final phase of the Gemini program NASA struggles with docking and spacewalks. Curiosity Roving Mars - On the surface of Mars the Curiosity rover is changing the way we think about the red planet.

The Apollo Program Begins - At the very beginning of NASA's moon project things go wrong. Caves - ESA's special training program for astronauts. Planck - Mapping the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The Shuttle Program - The first re-useable spacecraft. The Challenger Disaster - Pressing launch schedules lead to carelessness and the loss of the Challenger. Return to Space - A re-designed shuttle is back in space with a redefined role.

Project Mercury Begins - The start of NASA & America's first manned space program. Mars Express - The European Space Agency's Mars Satellite. The Soyuz Launch System - The gradual evolution of Russia's Soyuz launcher.