Solar System

58min

Documentary

Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries on the diverse worlds that orbit the sun.

Production Companies

BBC Studios Science Unit

NOVA

GBH

Episodes

Cast

Volcano Worlds

1. Volcano Worlds

59min

7th Oct 2024

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions so violent they reach into space.

Dark Worlds

2. Dark Worlds

58min

14th Oct 2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.

Storm Worlds

3. Storm Worlds

58min

21st Oct 2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's wildest weather, encountering powerful lightning, strange metallic frosts and monsoon rains on a moon a billion kilometres from Earth.

Ice Worlds

4. Ice Worlds

58min

28th Oct 2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.

Strange Worlds

5. Strange Worlds

58min

4th Nov 2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's misfits and oddballs and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.

First air date

7th Oct 2024

Last air date

4th Nov 2024

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks