How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 3
Beneath Jupiter’s clouds lie our solar system’s deepest secrets: from its violent youth, through the birth of life to the death of the sun. Scientists are discovering that the solar…
How the Universe Works Season 10 Episode 3
Physicists attempt to determine if Dark Matter could actually exist.
How the Universe Works Season 9 Episode 3
A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth’s star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun’s atmosphere, what it finds challenges everything known about…
How the Universe Works Season 8 Episode 3
The discovery of extraterrestrial life might face an impossible challenge: the physics of the universe itself; but using cutting-edge tech, experts might be on the verge of a groundbreaking find…
How the Universe Works Season 7 Episode 3
Interstellar space is the space between the universe’s stars and new discoveries reveal that it’s not empty and unremarkable as previously thought, but filled with weird objects and strange phenomena…
How the Universe Works Season 6 Episode 3
Our solar system hides a dark and violent past, and new discoveries reveal that Earth and the planets were formed from the destruction of strange alien worlds that came before…
How the Universe Works Season 5 Episode 3
Recent discoveries could explain how supermassive black holes grow so big, one of the universe’s most mysterious questions. Neither dark matter nor cannibalism can fully explain these monsters, but the…
How the Universe Works Season 4 Episode 3
A look inside the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way to discover terrifying secrets about parallel universes, wormholes, and space-time.
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 6
Asteroids strike, planets collide, black holes blast out death rays, volcanoes erupt and ice engulfs the planet. These are the universe’s weapons of extinction. They’ve happened before – wiping out…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 7
What built the Milky Way? New research might now have the answer, revealing an unlikely hero. At the heart of our galaxy sits a super massive black hole, one of…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 8
One day, a cosmic disaster will make life on Earth impossible. To survive, we must find a new home amongst the stars. Scientists are already developing new propulsion systems to…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 9
Is there another Earth out there with liquid oceans, rocky continents and life like us? Astronomers seek the answer with spectroscopy, direct imaging and telescopes. They hope to find evidence…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 2
How and when will the Universe end? Gravity and dark matter are poised to annihilate the Universe in a big crunch. Expansion and dark energy may tear it apart. Or,…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 4
The first second of the Universe, the creation of everything when space, time, matter and energy burst into existence. It is the most important second in history, which seals the…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 5
Saturn’s secrets are out. The ferocious weather, the evolving ring system and the discovery of active geology on Saturn’s moons has rewritten the textbooks. Scientists are looking for life on…
How the Universe Works Season 3 Episode 1
How does light escape from the sun? We take a journey from the centre of the sun, following the path of light. We witness its fiery birth from in the…
How the Universe Works Season 2 Episode 3
We once thought that the only planets were in our solar system. We have found many other planets but they are nothing like we expected, from deep-frozen, toxic snowballs, to…
How the Universe Works Season 1 Episode 3
The evolution of galaxies, from clouds of cold gas floating in space 13 billion years ago, to the vast gravitationally bound systems of today.