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How the crew caught incredible footage of fierce boxing matches between huge kangaroos competing for the role of alpha male.

The mysterious untold story of the scientist who made the Apollo Mission possible, and the death of a robotic explorer on another world.

Off the coast of Italy, engineers enter the final stage of an epic endeavour: the operation to raise and re-float the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

How far do our perceptions extend? Researches investigating the hidden depths of our brains explore the possibility a 'global consciousness'.

This is a true first contact story between humans and the beings who communicate in a symbolic language.

Everywhere we look on Earth, in the most hospitable of environments and in the most extreme, we find life. Yet we have only ever found life on our planet.

As winter approaches, it is the last chance for field teams to obtain information before they leave behind a skeleton crew for the cold, dark winter.

In January 2019, videos of grown men near Menindee weeping as they held decades-old Murray cod that perished in the green oxygen-starved soup that is all that remained of the Darling River went viral.

With two weeks until Antarctica's Scott Base shuts down for the winter, an entire year's worth of supplies is due for arrival but only if a channel can be cut in the ice, and a volcano is presenting scientists with other challenges.

While scientists are trying to determine how climate change and humans have affected the marine ecosystem, they are put at risk themselves when the machinery they rely on in this part of the world fails them.

A condition one storm has a wind speed over 95km/h and the temp is less than -72 degrees. When this storm hits, research teams in Antarctica have no option but to isolate themselves even further.

The team follow the tale of a housing crisis for a group of hermit crabs on an isolated tropical island.

The condition one storm may have passed, but malfunctioning equipment, significant winds, and engine failures leaving the coast guard dead in the water present new challenges for the research teams in Antarctica.

From a childhood dream of cosmic adventures to a lifetime of study, this is the story of how Carl Sagan brought outer space to the world.

Armed with the most ambitious scientific machinery in human history, can physicists discover the secrets hidden within higher dimensions?

Voyage through the evolution of consciousness, from ancient Greece to a visit with the largest life form on Earth.

This is the coldest and windiest place on Earth and after years of planning, six research teams have come to Scott Base, New Zealand's Antarctic Research Station, to study everything from the volcanos to migrating whales.

Morgan Freeman explores the theory of time travel backwards in time, and how strange-but-true phenomena such as quantum nonlocality may make this a reality.