5 episodes
Solar System - Series 1
First aired Oct 7, 2024Season 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.
Episodes
Episode 1
Volcano Worlds
Oct 7, 202459 min3 votes
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.
Episode 2
Dark Worlds
Oct 14, 202458 min3 votes
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.
Episode 3
Storm Worlds
Oct 21, 202458 min2 votes
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.
Episode 4
Ice Worlds
Oct 28, 202458 min1 votes
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.
Episode 5
Strange Worlds
Nov 4, 202458 min3 votes
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's misfits and oddballs and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.