NASA+ Is Now Streaming Free, No Subscription Required

NASA is pushing its space content directly to viewers through NASA+, a free on-demand streaming service available now on major platforms, the agency said, with no subscription and no cable package required.

What NASA Said

The agency confirmed that NASA+ is live and accessible through the NASA App on iOS and Android devices, on streaming players including Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV, and online at plus.nasa.gov. Every word of that comes from nasa.gov.

NASA said the service carries live launch coverage, original documentary series, and kids' content. It requires no subscription and costs nothing to download.

The agency also said NASA+ has already pulled in four times the viewership of NASA Television, its traditional over-the-air cable channel. That number comes directly from the nasa.gov release. On the strength of that shift, NASA said it is preparing to phase out NASA Television in late August, as part of what it described as a broader web and television modernization effort.

Marc Etkind, associate administrator for communications at NASA Headquarters in Washington, put it plainly in a statement on nasa.gov: "In a universe where the way we consume information is rapidly changing, NASA+ is helping us inspire and connect with our current generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation."

What Is on the Service Now

NASA's science.nasa.gov page, last updated October 1, 2026, lists the titles currently available on NASA+. They include:

- "Other Worlds: Europa"
- "Other Worlds: Titan"
- "Cosmic Dawn"
- "Planetary Defenders"
- "Our Alien Earth: The Lava Tubes of Mauna Loa, Hawai'i"
- "Our Alien Earth: Greece"
- "NASA Explorers: Sample Return"
- "NASA Explorers: Space School"
- "Listen to the Universe"
- "Space Out!"

That list comes from science.nasa.gov, not from a third party.

What Is Coming

NASA said on nasa.gov that new content is in production and coming to the platform. The upcoming titles include "Planetary Defenders," described as a documentary about asteroid detection and planetary defense; "Our Alien Earth," a series following NASA scientists working in extreme environments on Earth to inform the search for extraterrestrial life; and "An Ocean in Bloom," a documentary about a NASA satellite and a Florida coastal community's fight with ocean acidification threatening its fishing industry.

Returning series include a third episode of "Other Worlds," which follows scientists working with imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope; a third episode of "The Color of Space," which profiles current and former Black astronauts; and a second season of "Space Out," described as relaxing music paired with ultra-high-definition visuals of space. NASA confirmed all of these on nasa.gov. No air dates for the new titles are given in the record.

The platform will also carry live coverage of NASA launches and, the agency said, eventual coverage of the first woman and first person of color to travel to the Moon under the Artemis program. Artemis is NASA's ongoing campaign to return humans to the lunar surface. No launch date for a crewed Artemis Moon landing appears in the material.

The Bigger Picture

The shift to streaming is part of a larger modernization push, NASA said. The agency also relaunched nasa.gov and science.nasa.gov last year, creating what it described as a central location for research, climate data, and Artemis information. The nasa.gov release frames NASA+ as the next step in that same effort: making the agency's content more accessible, more discoverable, and more secure for the public.

The detail worth noting is the one buried near the bottom of the nasa.gov release: the four-times-over viewership advantage NASA+ already holds against the cable channel it is replacing. That is not a projection. NASA said it is already happening.

What is not in the record is a specific launch date for NASA Television's shutdown beyond "late August," and it is not clear from the material whether that date has already passed or is still ahead.

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