A group of nine explorers volunteer to survey extreme planets, but they are disharmonious because one of their members is a prickly empath. On their journey, they encounter a planet where the only living things seem to be the plants...until the empath is attacked, and they start to wonder if there is other life on the planet.

A pair of brothers came to a new planet to escape their harsh past lives. But it isn't the paradise they were promised, and now they must fight to survive in hostile conditions.

In the near future, a young mother leaves behind a book for her daughter before she embarks on her space journey to the outer solar system in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial creatures. Sections from her book are interspersed with her husband's verbal recollections of their love story, which he addresses to their young daughter.

On an intergalactic spaceship, two runaway servants turned mercenaries agree to a dangerous mission that will take them back to the planet from which they escaped—in return for a shot at a clean record and a peaceful life.

An explorer tells the tale of his time on another planet before making a strange request.

A Jesuit biologist and his team work to uncover the mysteries of a planet in the hope that it can be inhabitable for humans. But as he interacts with the native inhabitants, he realizes he has a decision to make: protect the planet or let those on Earth use it for their own selfish needs.

A crew of global explorers realize they may not be alone in the universe when they encounter a traveler from another world who wants to use his space technology for evil.

Two assistants on a distant planet rebel against their captain, who is a naturalist, and plan to leave him stranded. The naturalist studies the local creatures and devises a plan to create a diversion, allowing him to regain the ship and control.

An outer space fugitive on the run stops to help an old friend and becomes involved in a revolution. A fugitive pilot from Earth helps his found family escape persecution from the Coalition and gets involved in a revolution taking place on another planet.

The first man to walk on Mars recounts a trip with a strange alien companion across the planet to his disbelieving crew.