Science TV Guide — Monday TV Listings & Schedule

Browse the full Science TV guide for Monday, 31 August 2026. 23 programmes listed , including 6 tonight. US listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

Early Morning

00:00 1h

Lincoln Assassination: Mysteries at the Museum

True Special

Host Don Wildman retraces John Wilkes Booth's steps in the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln's murder and examines the motives behind it.

01:00 2h

King Tut: A Century of Secrets

True Special

Josh Gates joins the world's leading Egyptologists on a journey to uncover new secrets from Howard Carter's historic discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

03:00 1h

Lincoln Assassination: Mysteries at the Museum

True Special

Host Don Wildman retraces John Wilkes Booth's steps in the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln's murder and examines the motives behind it.

04:00 1h

Unearthed

Lost World of Desert Kings Science

Lost World of Desert Kings

Archaeologists use pioneering technology to investigate the ancient city of Samarra's rise to power and reveal its monumental downfall.

05:00 1h

Unearthed

S9 · E6 · Egypt's Island of Secrets Documentary

Egypt's Island of Secrets

On a remote Egyptian island, an enormous temple of stone bears names of some of the ancient world's most famous leaders.

Morning

06:00 1h

Unearthed

S9 · E7 · Egypt's Cult Kings Documentary

Egypt's Cult Kings

Some of the world's oldest Egyptian tombs and a subterranean temple thought to be used by a shadowy death cult rest within the ancient city of Abydos.

07:00 1h

NASA's Unexplained Files

S5 · E11 · The Sun's Evil Twin Documentary

The Sun's Evil Twin

Experts debate why two suns were photographed in the sky over Indonesia; NASA scientists are baffled by ghostly white swirls on the Moon's surface.

08:00 1h

NASA's Unexplained Files

S1 · E1 · Pilot Science

Pilot

Astronaut Leroy Chao's experience in space, the Apollo capsule's pictures of a flying saucer and shadows caught on film following the shuttle are featured.

09:00 1h

Killers of the Cosmos

S1 · E1 · Killer Rocks Science

Killer Rocks

Earth is hit by 100 tons of rock from space every day, and most burn up in the atmosphere, but just a single rock wiped out the dinosaurs.

10:00 1h

How the Universe Works

S7 · E1 · Nightmares of Neutron Stars Documentary

Nightmares of Neutron Stars

Experts explain how neutron stars are violent phenomena that defy the laws of physics, and new discoveries reveal they are deadlier than previously thought.

11:00 1h

How the Universe Works

S7 · E2 · When Supernovas Strike Documentary

When Supernovas Strike

Experts explain that supernovas are the violent death of giant stars, and new discoveries reveal that they create the elements that are essential to all life.

Daytime

12:00 1h

Tales From the Explorers Club

S1 · E3 · The Race to Space True

The Race to Space

Josh Gates revisits explorer members' heart-stopping trips into space, including Apollo 13 astronauts who brought their crippled module back to Earth.

13:00 1h

Tales From the Explorers Club

S1 · E4 · Wild Rides True

Wild Rides

Josh follows the trail of the club members' incredible journeys, including the Kon-Tiki balsa raft crossing the Pacific and the lunar rover crossing the moon.

14:00 1h

Tales From the Explorers Club

S1 · E5 · Monsters and Myths True

Monsters and Myths

Josh recounts a mythic Himalayan expedition to meet the Yeti, and a filmmaker's encounter with the terrifying elephant king.

15:00 1h

Tales From the Explorers Club

S1 · E6 · Explorer's Club at the Movies True

Explorer's Club at the Movies

Josh reveals how club members' awesome exploits inspired Hollywood films, including how a ship-cracking archaeologist became Indiana Jones.

16:00 1h

Tales From the Explorers Club

S1 · E2 · Polar Extremes True

Polar Extremes

Josh Gates relives history's coolest polar adventures, including Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's legendary trek to the North Pole.

17:00 1h

Tales From the Explorers Club

S1 · E1 · Highest Highs, Lowest Lows True

Highest Highs, Lowest Lows

Josh Gates recounts death-defying feats at the top and bottom of the world; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's perilous climb up Mount Everest.

Evening

18:00 1h

Secret Nazi Ruins

Secrets of Vogelsang Castle True

Secrets of Vogelsang Castle

A medieval castle-like complex in the mountains of Germany is examined; experts discover a reprehensible training facility designed to groom elite Nazis.

19:00 1h

Secret Nazi Ruins

Mystery Beneath the Castle True

Mystery Beneath the Castle

Experts investigate and reveal an underground tunneling project below an enormous Renaissance castle that was seized by German forces in 1941.

20:00 1h

Secret Nazi Ruins

Secret Relics of Nazi Research True

Secret Relics of Nazi Research

Experts investigate a mysterious research installation secretly built by the Nazis in Western Poland and uncover top-secret military fuel development.

21:00 1h

Secret Nazi Ruins

Inside the Terror Factory True

Inside the Terror Factory

A group of experts investigates secret technology developed by German military engineers at the mysterious ruins of a Nazi industrial complex.

22:00 1h

Secret Nazi Ruins

Secret Nazi City True

Secret Nazi City

A construction project in Eastern Germany, which began as the Nazis conducted their rise and boasts a network of underground tunnels and bunkers, is examined.

23:00 1h

Secret Nazi Ruins

Secrets of the Owl Mountains True

Secrets of the Owl Mountains

Experts investigate and uncover an abandoned underground complex in the Owl Mountains of Poland that may have been concealing something profoundly dark.

Early Morning

Morning

Daytime

Evening

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