Science Explorer

Explore the stars with more than 30 fun activities.

Cable television's longest-running documentary series Explorer presents a mix of entertaining, illuminating, and surprising investigative stories from all over the world, along with in-depth interviews and provocative roundtable discussions. Explorertakes viewers around the world, opening a window on hidden parts of the world, unlocking mysteries both ancient and modern, and investigating stories of science, nature, and culture.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have already been launched.

In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface. This is the story of ESA’s pioneering comet explorer, following the mission from its initial inception to its historic touchdown.

Dopo una guerra interstellare durata anni che ha devastato pianeti e decimato la popolazione della galassia, l’esercito sembra aver preso il potere ed è pronto a sferrare il colpo finale. La resistenza ribelle decide di far evadere il mercenario Kye Cortland per poter entrare in possesso dei piani nemici, ma la missione si rivela ben più complessa di quanto previsto e la navicella di Kye precipita su un pianeta remoto e desertico.