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Historian James Burke continues his journey through random historical connections that together have shaped our world and provide important clues to our future.

This series helps ordinary people understand the science behind the big questions of life, the universe, and time travel .

The ultimate guide to humankind's exploration of our Solar System, told by the passionate explorers who sent spacecraft to every major celestial body yet visited. From the raging inferno of Sun all the way to the icy beauty of Pluto, these are emotional tales of discovery, illustrated with stunning space imagery, often revealing the possibility of life beyond Earth. Discover how, by dodging deadly radiation belts, we now know that beneath Jupiter's swirling clouds lies a ball of spinning liquid metal, or how Saturn's rings were formed at the time of the dinosaurs and are kept stable today by dozens of tiny moons. Marvel at the possibility that we may already have discovered life on Mars in a key experiment carried out in 1976, only for a controversial decision by scientists led them to ignore the result. Learn the amazing story of how we finally made it to the hellish surface of Venus, a feat that has been compared to sending a deep-sea submarine to another planet. These billion dollar missions often took decades to plan and execute, with the very real possibility of failure at any time. There is jeopardy and stress at every turn - entire careers are at stake. In this way, Secrets Of The Solar System is about more than space exploration; these are surprisingly moving human stories featuring many of the world's top space scientists, and they reveal not just wonderful, far away vistas and amazing science, but also the dedication and perseverance needed to explore the Solar System for all humanity.

This follows a trail of energy into the power centers of the universe.

Emprenda un alucinante viaje por la historia de la humanidad a través de seis inventos emblemáticos que la gente de hoy da por sentados, y descubra cómo la ciencia, la invención y la tecnología se complementan para cambiarlo todo.

An engineering revolution is underway. Driven by dedicated individuals who are building extraordinary machines that will change our lives

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured thousands of stunning images of space, revolutionized our understanding of the universe and become a global icon. To mark its 25th anniversary, National Geographic Channel tells the definitive story of NASA's most successful science project ever, in Hubble's Cosmic Journey, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Commander Stephen Hawking pilots his space ship the SS Hawking on the journey of a lifetime, zooming from black holes to the Big Bang, Saturn to Santa Barbara. After all, why should astronauts have all the fun?

Pluto's extraordinary story from discovery to revelation - 85 years of mystery & intrigue will soon be complete.

Alie Ward takes us on a journey through history, connecting events, objects and people to the characteristics of the modern world, while pointing to the future they lead to.

How will humans take the next step into outer space - traveling to Mars not to visit, but to stay?

Meet the brilliant minds throughout history, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, responsible for creating the telescope. Today, their invention allows humanity to reach the furthest limits of seeing - 13 billion light-years out.

Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci's "flying machines" to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.

Learn how robots were first conceptualized in ancient Rome and see how their use has evolved over the centuries, from the calculator to the Roomba. Then, take a sneak peek at what future robots will be able to do.

Go for a ride through the 9,000-year history of the car, from its roots in dogsleds to Henry Ford's affordable and assembly line-built Model T, and meet the scientists working on the next generation of self-driving automobiles.

Learn the explosive history of the rocket, from its origin in ancient China, to its use as a weapon of war, to how adding hydrogen allowed it to carry astronauts all the way to the moon.

The history leading to the smartphone is a journey through Roman fire signals, Morse code, Marconi's wireless, Bell's telephone, Lamarr's spread-spectrum signaling, to Apple's 2007 iPhone and forward to brainwave-controlled smartphones.

Fifty years after humans first stepped foot on the moon, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs engage in new discoveries to make life on the moon a reality.

This is an exciting film about boldly reaching out for the most impossible and inaccessible goals. Out in the darkest reaches of the solar system, beyond the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, lies a realm where the sun is merely a brightish star. In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, after months of painstaking work, discovered a lonely world inhabiting this cold, desolate place. The ninth planet of the solar system had been discovered and it was named Pluto. But we knew almost nothing of the planet or the region of space that it occupied. The Voyager 2 spacecraft travelled to Uranus in 1986 and then and Neptune in 1989, but there were to be no more planetary encounters and no more missions were planned. Our gallery of the solar system was incomplete. But a passionate group of scientists would not accept this. They were prepared to spend the rest of their careers fighting to add Pluto to the gallery of places visited. This is the brilliant and emotionally charged story of how an underground group of scientists took on the establishment, to take humankind to Pluto and beyond. A voyage to the most distant worlds ever seen up-close. And it would be an astounding, yet life-affirming journey for all of us. New Horizons was born. But during the decades that this mission would take to go from a dream shared by a small group of scientists, to an actual mission costing hundreds of millions of dollars, hurtling through space towards its distant prize, there would be many challenges to overcome. Not least, a remarkable separate discovery, that revealed an unknown region of the solar system, with hundreds of objects orbiting within it. A region that Pluto occupies. The distant world wasn't alone and no longer was it deemed completely unique. Pluto was soon stripped of its designation as a planet. The setbacks and dramas on this rollercoaster of a journey, and the jaw-dropping beauty of the world that is eventually revealed, will leave nobody in any doubt that Pluto may be a dwarf planet, but it is as wondrous as any other planet. The final episode in the Secrets of the Solar System series, is a breathtaking adventure into the depths of space, for all people.

Samantha Stites met Christopher Thomas in 2011, when an unsettling obsession took hold. Christopher constantly stalked Samantha, showing up consistently where she went until 2022, when the harassment turned into something dangerous.

Morland Sanders gains access to undercover footage from British Transport Police that exposes the bad behaviour of football-fans on the UK's rail network as they bring offensive chants from the stadiums to the carriages.