Solar System — Season 1
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.
About this season
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.
Episodes (5)
1. Volcano Worlds
6.7Aired 7 October 2024 • 59 min
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.
2. Dark Worlds
6.7Aired 14 October 2024 • 58 min
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.
3. Storm Worlds
5.0Aired 21 October 2024 • 58 min
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.
4. Ice Worlds
8.0Aired 28 October 2024 • 58 min
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.
5. Strange Worlds
6.7Aired 4 November 2024 • 58 min
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's misfits and oddballs and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.