Solar System

Episode 1: Volcano Worlds
The exploration of our solar system begins on planets and moons covered by volcanoes.

Professor Brian Cox journeys to the dramatic, volcanic worlds of the solar system and explores alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent they can reach into space. As Professor Cox explains, understanding what makes these worlds active is critical in the search for life beyond Earth.

Episode 2: Dark Worlds
Brian Cox travels to the solar system’s hidden realms and least-explored regions.

Brian Cox explores the solar system’s hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie shrouded in darkness. He visits some of its least explored regions and finds out what lies beyond the reach of even the most powerful telescopes. The solar system is not just a few worlds orbiting close to the Sun. It’s an enormous structure that stretches halfway to the nearest star.

Episode 3: Storm Worlds
Explore space’s wildest weather with powerful lightning and strange metallic frosts.

Brian Cox goes on a journey to the storm worlds of the solar system and explores the weird weather that plays out in the atmospheres of distant planets and moons. He visits landscapes etched by giant dust devils, mountains coated with a strange metallic frost and monsoon rains on a moon one billion kilometers from Earth. These are among the most dramatic and violent worlds ever discovered.

Episode 4: Ice Worlds
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s planetary ice giants and frozen moons.

Professor Brian Cox explores the frozen worlds of the solar system. He ventures to a dwarf planet where mountains of solid ice float across the surface, visits a black and white moon painted with frost, and witnesses a world illuminated by a strange form of ice. In the far reaches of the solar system, ice behaves in unimaginable ways and may have even created habitats for alien life.

Episode 5: Strange Worlds
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s misfits, oddballs and bizarre worlds.

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s weirdest worlds, the planetary misfits and oddballs with freakish shapes and sizes. He visits an egg-shaped dwarf planet that shouldn’t really exist, a tiny moon that looks like a UFO, a tortured patchwork moon, and an eerie ocean world in orbit around Jupiter. He also finds out how simple forces have created such bizarre places.