Solar System

Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the spectacular wonders and mysterious natural phenomena that are happening right now on the surface of worlds that orbit the Sun.

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Volcano Worlds

1. Volcano Worlds

60 minutes
Journey to the volcano worlds of our solar system and explore alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice. See planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent they reach into space.
Journey to the volcano worlds of our solar system and explore alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice. See planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent they reach into space.

Dark Worlds

2. Dark Worlds

55 minutes
Visit the least explored regions of our solar system and find out what lies beyond the reach of even our most powerful telescopes. Explore hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, shrouded in darkness.
Visit the least explored regions of our solar system and find out what lies beyond the reach of even our most powerful telescopes. Explore hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, shrouded in darkness.

Storm Worlds

3. Storm Worlds

55 minutes
Witness the weird weather that plays out in the atmospheres of distant planets and moons. Visit landscapes etched by giant dust devils, mountains coated with a strange metallic frost, and monsoon rains on a moon 1 billion kilometres from Earth.
Witness the weird weather that plays out in the atmospheres of distant planets and moons. Visit landscapes etched by giant dust devils, mountains coated with a strange metallic frost, and monsoon rains on a moon 1 billion kilometres from Earth.

Ice Worlds

4. Ice Worlds

55 minutes
Meet the dwarf planet where mountains of ice float across the surface, the black and white moon painted with frost, and a world illuminated by a strange form of ice. In the far reaches of the solar system, ice behaves in ways we could never have imagined.
Meet the dwarf planet where mountains of ice float across the surface, the black and white moon painted with frost, and a world illuminated by a strange form of ice. In the far reaches of the solar system, ice behaves in ways we could never have imagined.

Strange Worlds

5. Strange Worlds

55 minutes
Discover the weirdest worlds in our solar system – the misfits and oddballs with freakish shapes and sizes. Visit 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.
Discover the weirdest worlds in our solar system – the misfits and oddballs with freakish shapes and sizes. Visit 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.