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NASA's Unexplained Files
Overview
Dive into the mysteries of some of NASA’s most curious missions and explore stories of engineering achievement and human endurance. Each episode offers first hand testimony from astronauts, NASA mission footage, plus beautifully rendered CGI to bring to life these voyages that reveal unexplained sightings that have dogged many of NASA’s most famous missions.
Status
Returning Series
Network
Science
Seasons & Episodes
Season 4
Episodes
Pluto's Stranger Things
Astronomers find evidence for incredible alien technology around a distant star. The first pictures of Pluto may show something moving across its surface. Apollo astronauts see something they can't explain as they approach the Moon.
Rise of the Planet Killer
A probe captures an image of a strange structure on Mars. Files from the first Apollo mission record an eerie sighting on the dark side of the Moon. A planet-eating star gives scientists a glimpse of Earth's terrible demise.
A President's Close Encounter
Geysers are discovered on a frozen moon, and NASA redirects a probe on a daring mission to detect evidence of life. An unidentified object is spotted approaching a near-earth asteroid. A future president is an eyewitness to a UFO.
The Earth Next Door
Astronomers detect a potentially habitable planet tantalizingly close to Earth. A chance discovery at NASA reveals a top secret military space program. The Apollo missions bring back evidence that the moon may be rich in the building blocks for life.
Curse of the Full Moon
Two cosmonauts fight for their lives while trapped inside a capsule in a frozen lake. A NASA scientist investigates the deadly Nazi secret that doomed the Hindenburg. NASA astronomers are spooked when the full moon starts affecting their experiments.
Did Earth Have Two Moons?
A discovery suggests the hellish clouds of Venus may be the origin of life on Earth. A bizarre sighting 2,000 years ago raises the possibility that Earth once had two moons. A scientist helps the FBI crack the 1996 Olympic bombing.
Mystery of the Invisible Planet
A probe carrying a message to aliens malfunctions as it enters deep space. A NASA mission goes disastrously wrong when an imposter breaches Mission Control. Astronomers may have found an invisible planet around a distant star.
Mars's Deepest Secret
British astronomers working for the CIA intercept Soviet photos of the moon. A malfunction on the ISS could poison its crew with ammonia gas. A startling image taken by a NASA probe points to evidence that life could exist on Mars.
