The Frontier Is Everywhere • 1989 • episode "1/10" • The Sagan Series

58:40

Discover how beauty and order in Earth's cosmic backyard was formed from nothing more than a chaotic cloud of gas. Chasing tornados in Oklahoma, Professor Brian Cox explains how the same physics that creates these spinning storms shaped the young solar system. Out of this celestial maelstrom emerged the jewel in the crown, Brian's second wonder - the magnificent rings of Saturn.

2/5 • Wonders of the Solar System • Astronomy

43:22

We once thought that our solar system was unique: The only place you could find planets in the entire Universe. Now we know better. For the last twenty years we have been discovering planets at an amazing rate, but they are nothing like we expected. These are truly wild worlds, a collection of monsters. From deep-frozen, toxic snowballs, to scorched and boiling nightmares: Every one is worlds apart from the habitable paradise we know and love here on Earth. Having so far only discovered this zoo of planetary oddballs we must face the question: Is every planet out there a planet from hell?

S2E3 • How the Universe Works • 2012 • Astronomy

46:59

All life on Earth started as single-cell bacteria and stayed like that for two billion years. So even if we do find alien life out there, what are the chances of that life being complex like us? Astronaut host – Mae Jemison.

8/10 • One Strange Rock • 2018 • Astronomy

43:01

The story of how a large aerospace company, BAE Systems, began a secret project to counter the force of gravity while NASA simultaneously ran a similar 'Breakthrough Propulsion Physics' program.

S1E6 • Space's Deepest Secrets • 2016 • Astronomy

43:01

A soaring quest through the solar system’s exotic and hidden water realms, from the deep seas below the icy crust of Europa to the vast prehistoric oceans that once existed on Mars billions of years ago.

S1E4 • Space's Deepest Secrets • 2016 • Astronomy

5:34

"That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived.."

10/10 • The Sagan Series • 1990 • Astronomy