Solar System

Professor Brian Cox explores various extraterrestrial landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent that the matter flows into space.

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets. He visits some of its least explored regions and finds out what lies beyond the reach of even the most powerful telescopes.

Brian journeys to the storm worlds of the solar system and explores the weird weather that plays out in the atmospheres of distant planets and moons. He visits landscapes etched by giant dust devils, and mountains coated with metallic frost.

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's frozen worlds. He meets the dwarf planet where mountains of solid ice float across the surface, the black and white moon painted with frost, and a world illuminated by a strange form of ice.

Brian explores the solar system's weirdest worlds: the misfits and oddballs with freakish shapes and sizes. He visits an egg-shaped dwarf planet that should not really exist, a tiny moon that looks like a UFO, a tortured patchwork moon, and more.