安定的生活让人舒适安心，却也使人倍感空虚和失落。纵使在地球上定居了上万年，他们的目光依然投向宇宙的深处。直到某天，地球的科技终于可以支持我们实现太空漫游的梦想，于是我们的足迹便遍布太阳系的各个角落。未来世界，火星、土卫八、木卫二已经接纳了诸多地球移民，殖民地灯光闪烁，点缀夜空。人类加工小行星，在其内部挖出柱状空隙，以便创造适宜居住的环境。土卫六成为飞行遨游的绝佳场所，天卫五成为蹦极爱好者的乐园，土星成为观光客必到的所在。你我的梦，就在不远的未来……
本片许多场景都根据外太空探测器发回的真实的照片加工而成。

柯克船长（克里斯·派恩 Chris Pine 饰）和企业号的船员们来到了银河系中未知的一个区域，开始完成他们5年的任务——探索新世界，寻找新物种。却在途中滞留异星，遭遇了当地种族追杀，他们必须找到方法离开这个星球。

世界在历经极端气候与粮食危机，地球濒临末日之际，一位电机工程师与一群专业研究者还有顶尖太空人，扛起人类史上最重要的任务，越过已知的银河，在星际间寻找未来出路。同时必须先割舍无法与家人见面的亲情牵绊，在爱与勇气、生存与挑战中，跨越星际拯救人类。

Join Kanna, Kanta, Yamane, and Gloria in The Manga Guide to the Universe as they explore our solar system, the Milky Way, and faraway galaxies in search of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter, cosmic expansion, and the Big Bang itself. As you rocket across the night sky, you'll become acquainted with modern astronomy and astrophysics, as well as the classical discoveries and theories on which they're built. You'll even learn why some scientists believe finding extraterrestrial life is inevitable! You'll also learn about: * Discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Hubble, and other seminal astronomers * Theories of the universe's origins, evolution, and geometry * The ways you can measure and observe heavenly bodies with different telescopes, and how astronomers calculate distances in space * Stellar classifications and how the temperature, size, and magnitude of a star are related * Cosmic background radiation, what the WMAP satellite discovered, and scientists' predictions for the future of the universe So dust off your flight suit and take a fantastic voyage through the cosmos in The Manga Guide to the Universe.