The rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars were born at the same time from the same material - ye...
Professor Brian Cox explores the laws of the universe. In this episode, Brian looks at the nature of time and its role in creating both ...
Professor Brian Cox describes how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. He explores the ...
Professor Stephen Hawking explains the history of mankind's quest to explain the Universe. He shows how advances in...
Since the first star lit up the universe, they have been engines of creation. Professor Brian Cox reveals how, ultimately, stars brought life...
Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions s...
Professor Brian Cox questions whether we are alone in the universe. There might be more planets than stars in our gal...
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.
Professor Stephen Hawking looks at the mystery of how the Universe. He introduces the Big Bang theory and the scientis...
Professor Brian Cox describes how nature has carved out the solar system. He looks at the rings of Saturn, explaining how...
Professor Brian Cox explores the laws of the universe. In this episode, he seeks to answer the biggest questions of all - what are we a...
Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue p...
Professor Stephen Hawking looks at the search from ancient to modern times for the 'cosmic alchemy' that created all the...
Series in which Professor Brian Cox explores the laws of the universe. In this episode, Brian takes on the story of the force that sculp...
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's wildest weather, encountering powerful lightning, strange metallic frosts and monsoon rains on...
Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its size gives ...
A space mission discovers the dramatic history of the Milky Way. Professor Brian Cox reveals how our galaxy endured multiple col...
Professor Brian Cox reveals how something as flimsy as an envelope of gas - an atmosphere - can create some of the most w...
Professor Stephen Hawking looks at how radio astronomy and the discovery of quasars affected the debate about th...
Professor Brian Cox journeys into a supermassive black hole - a monster that can destroy worlds and stop time, and which is forc...
Professor Brian Cox travels to the tallest mountain on Earth to show how something as basic as a planet's size can make the di...
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.
Professor Brian Cox reveals the history of Saturn. Saturn began life as a strange planet of rock and ice and in time transformed...
Professor Brian Cox explores the laws of the universe. He shows how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, i...
Professor Brian Cox explores how the search for aliens in the solar system has followed the search for water. He looks at Jupiter's m...
In the final episode, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious ...
Professor Stephen Hawking shows how we discovered that most of the matter in the Universe is missing and looks at the ...
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's misfits and oddballs and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these...
It's the ultimate question: why are we here? Brian Cox explores how cutting-edge space missions take us back 13.8 billion years t...
Professor Stephen Hawking explains how scientists are trying to unite the theory of relativity and quantum mech...
The chaotic birth of the solar system is incomparable to the relatively stable system that we see today.
James May explains what elements our universe is made up of.
A short explanation of the planets and their order away from the Sun.
Exploring the fate of our solar system and the new planetary systems that are being found around nearby stars.
Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, this time travelling...
Kate Humble is in the Arctic, where spring arrives with a bang. Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's...
James May explores the clues left in outer space that are proof of the Big Bang's occurrence.
Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, travelling first from July to th...
Accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter.
Professor Brian Cox describes each planet's perspective of the star at the centre of our solar system.
Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comedy a...
James May explains how our solar system began as a solar nebula, a formation of clouds and dust.
An explanation of astronomer Viktor Safronov's low-mass-nebula model of planet formation.
The moon was born from a large mass colliding with the early formation of Earth.
Jupiter's gravitational influence extends across the Solar System, by not only collecting up objects but also pushing ...
An exploration of each stage of our sun's lifecycle, from clumps of hydrogen and dust to being the most powerful forc...
This explanation of the retrograde motion of Mars through the Earth's skies proves beyond doubt the sun's positio...
Professor Brian Cox explains the immense power of the Sun, and the extent of its gravitational influence.
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