Solar System

Solar System

TV-PG2024•58m•8.2/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.2/10(22)

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.

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Production

BBC Studios Science Unit, NOVA, GBH

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

October 7, 2024

Last Aired

November 4, 2024

Networks

BBC Two

Trailers & Videos

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

US

No providers available for this region.

Seasons & Episodes

Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.

Season

Volcano Worlds

E1

Volcano Worlds

Air date: 2024-10-07

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

E2

Dark Worlds

Air date: 2024-10-14

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

E3

Storm Worlds

Air date: 2024-10-21

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

E4

Ice Worlds

Air date: 2024-10-28

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

Strange Worlds

E5

Strange Worlds

Air date: 2024-11-04

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

Cast

Professor Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox

Self - Presenter

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