The Best Space Shows Streaming in 2025

Space-set television is experiencing a golden age on streaming platforms. From hard science fiction that respects physics to space operas that embrace spectacle, the genre has never offered more variety or higher production values. These shows take viewers beyond Earth with stories that use the cosmos to explore everything from political allegory to existential philosophy.

How We Selected: We surveyed options using full-season viewing, critical analysis, and production quality assessment. Key factors included pacing consistency, rewatch value, narrative quality, acting performances. No sponsorship or affiliate relationship influenced our selections.

The Expanse (Amazon Prime Video)

The Expanse is the best science fiction show of the streaming era and one of the finest space operas ever produced. Set centuries in the future when humanity has colonized the solar system, the show follows a detective, a politician, and a ship crew as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens all of human civilization. The physics are largely realistic, with acceleration, deceleration, and the lack of sound in space depicted accurately. The political dynamics between Earth, Mars, and the asteroid belt provide real-world resonance, and the ensemble cast grows into one of television’s best across six seasons.

For All Mankind (Apple TV Plus)

This alternate history series imagines what would have happened if the Soviet Union had reached the Moon first, sparking a sustained space race that never ended. Each season jumps forward roughly a decade, showing how continued investment in space exploration transforms geopolitics, technology, and individual lives. The show balances large-scale historical divergence with intimate personal drama, and the production design for each era is meticulous. Four seasons have taken the timeline from the 1960s through the early 2000s with increasingly ambitious storytelling.

Silo (Apple TV Plus)

Based on Hugh Howey’s novels, Silo follows the inhabitants of an underground community who believe the surface is toxic and deadly. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette, a mechanic whose curiosity about the truth of their existence puts her in conflict with the authorities who maintain order through strict control of information. The show is a masterclass in building mystery, parceling out revelations about the silo’s nature across episodes that reward patient viewers. The production design of the massive underground structure is stunning.

Constellation (Apple TV Plus)

Noomi Rapace stars in this psychological thriller about an astronaut who returns from the International Space Station after a catastrophe and finds that reality has subtly shifted. The show blends hard science fiction with existential horror, exploring quantum physics concepts through a deeply personal story about a woman questioning her own perception. Jonathan Banks provides menacing support, and the show’s visual language, particularly its use of aspect ratio shifts to signal different realities, demonstrates genuine artistic ambition.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount Plus)

The Star Trek franchise returned to its roots with this series set aboard the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike, played with warmth and moral clarity by Anson Mount. The show embraces the episodic format that made the original series a classic, with each episode telling a self-contained story while developing the crew across the season. The tonal variety, from tense thriller to musical comedy to fairy tale, demonstrates the franchise’s flexibility. It is the most consistently enjoyable Star Trek since The Next Generation.

Battlestar Galactica (Peacock)

Ronald D. Moore’s reimagined series about the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse fleeing across space while pursued by the robotic Cylons remains one of the finest dramas in television history. Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell lead an ensemble that brings Shakespearean weight to a show that uses science fiction to explore terrorism, democracy, religious fanaticism, and the definition of humanity. The first two seasons are among the best television ever produced in any genre.

Lost in Space (Netflix)

This family-friendly reimagining of the 1960s series follows the Robinson family as they navigate an alien planet after their colony ship goes off course. Molly Parker and Toby Stephens lead a cast that brings genuine warmth to the survival adventure, and the visual effects create alien environments that feel both dangerous and wondrous. Three seasons tell a complete story, making it an ideal family binge that introduces younger viewers to space science fiction.

The Right Stuff (Disney Plus)

Based on Tom Wolfe’s book, this series dramatizes the Mercury Seven astronauts’ selection and training during the early American space program. The show captures the specific cocktail of courage, ego, patriotism, and recklessness that defined the first astronauts, and the period recreation of 1960s America is immersive. While it lasted only one season, it provides an excellent companion to For All Mankind’s alternate history.

For more science fiction content, check out our guides to the best sci-fi shows streaming and our review of Silo Season 2.