Could a mummy found in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Pharaoh?

Doctors, rescuers and mountaineers try to determine why people die attempting to climb Mount McKinley.

Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well preserved bodies of people buried long ago under peat bogs.

David Attenborough probes the mystery of ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber.

A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new understanding of matter itself.

NOVA recreates the expeditions of Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen, two Arctic explorers who set out to find the legendary Arctic sea route known as the Northwest Passage.

Driverless vehicles compete in a 130-mile race across the Majove Desert.

A mission to Saturn and its enigmatic sattelite, Titan, looks for clues to the origins of life.

Everyone has heard of global warming, but a lesser-known man-made phenomenon has been nearly as powerful at affecting Earth's climate. A look at global dimming, created by soot and pollution reflecting the sun's rays and surprisingly helping to offset global warming's catastrophic advance.

Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?

Researchers unearth clues about the greatest Volcanic eruption of the past 100000 years.

On March 27, 1977, on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets collided on a fogbound runway, killing 583 people in what is still the deadliest crash in aviation history. NOVA looks back at the crucial final hours before the disaster. Despite new technology to improve runway safety, near-misses on the ground are still the leading cause of deadly aviation accidents.

Join NOVA on a mind-bending hunt for a monster lurking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers are closing in on one of the most destructive objects in the universe ñ a supermassive black hole ñ and itís hiding right in the center of our own galaxy. Eventually, it will blast jets of radiation millions of miles its space, incinerating everything in its neighborhood, including planet Earth. For a long time, black holes were dismissed as pure science fiction. Even Albert Einstein could not bring himself to accept them, despite pioneering the theory of relativity that predicted their existence. But recently, scientists have found convincing evidence that black holes are not only real but are crucial to the life and death of galaxies everywhere in the cosmos.From the explosive birth of a black hole to its cannibalistic death throes, NOVA investigates one of the universeís darkest secrets. With striking special effects, Monster of the Milky Way takes viewers on a scientifically acc

The flamboyant rise and tragic death of pioneering aviator Alberto-Santos Dumont.

Experts explore the mysterious story of five siblings living in a remote Turkish village.

Follow one man's dream to engeneer a submarine with panaramic views.