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Season 48 of 8 Episodes

Evidence of alien technology around a distant star; speculation about Pluto's surface; Apollo astronauts are at a loss of words to describe an object they encountered while they approached the moon.
A Mars mission captures an image of a strange structure on the planet; an intriguing sight on the dark side of the moon; a planet-eating star gives scientists a peek of Earth's bleak future.
The discovery of geysers on a moon; NASA's mission to detect life; an object is spotted approaching an asteroid.
Astronomers notice a planet in Earth's vicinity capable of supporting life; top secret military program exposed; the moon contains the components to start life.
Cosmonauts are trapped in a capsule in a frozen lake; a NASA scientist investigates the Hindenburg; the full moon affects experiments.
A theory of Earth's abiogenesis may have started in the clouds of Venus; a look into the claim of Earth having two moons; a NASA scientist helps the FBI solve the 1996 Olympic bombing.
A probe malfunctions without cause as it enters deep space; a mission goes astray when an imposter breaches Mission Control; evidence of an invisible planet within the Solar System.
Soviet photos of the moon are intercepted by the CIA; a malfunction aboard the ISS, which imperils the whole crew; NASA probe finds evidence of the possibility of life on Mars.

An astronomer records an unusual radio signal from beyond the solar system; FBI agents find classified documents at the home of a NASA scientist; when scientists discover strange DNA in the octopus, they examine if their origins could be alien.
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A NASA astronaut reports seeing a flying saucer in the skies above a U.S. Air Force test range; how the swirling gases of Saturn have formed a perfect hexagon that has hovered above the planet's pole for 30 years.
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Evidence of alien technology around a distant star; speculation about Pluto's surface; Apollo astronauts are at a loss of words to describe an object they encountered while they approached the moon.
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After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto, it encounters a strange alien world that shuts down the probe's computers; experts investigate if the mysterious object is an alien spacecraft hiding at the edge of the solar system.
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A strange discovery by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover suggests the Red Planet was home to an alien nuclear war 300 million years ago; experts investigate if an extraterrestrial Armageddon transformed an Earth-like world into a wasteland.
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A Mars mission captures an image of a strange structure on the planet; an intriguing sight on the dark side of the moon; a planet-eating star gives scientists a peek of Earth's bleak future.
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NASA's task of reaching beyond the bounds of Earth has uncovered disturbing anomalies that have perplexed even the finest scientific minds. Science Channel digs into the space agency's archives to reveal countless mysteries and unusual encounters, discoveries and sightings. Each hourlong episode scrutinizes evidence, explores possible explanations, and considers testimony from NASA insiders, scientists, astronauts and others who have witnessed the strange phenomena. The stories are made all the more unusual since they come from the most credible scientific organization in the world.

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