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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2025
Ep1 - Destination Moon
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
Scientists in 2025 detected the ‘strongest hint yet’ of biological activity outside our solar system on exoplanet K2-18b, sparking growing excitement about the real possibility of extraterrestrial life....
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2025
Ep2 - Searching The Solar System
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
In this lecture, Maggie continues her journey, this time in a search for life in the rest of our solar system. From the ancient Greeks’ first observations of ‘planetai’ (wandering stars), she starts by...
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2025
Ep3 - To the Stars and Beyond
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
In her final lecture, Maggie takes her audience beyond our solar system, deep into the Milky Way galaxy, and yet further out into the universe, where the chances of finding life out there, somewhere, seem...
Universe
The Sun: God Star
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox begins his epic exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. We estimate that there are two hundred trillion...
Universe
Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Humans have long gazed up at the night sky, wondering whether other lifeforms and intelligences could be thriving on worlds far beyond our own. Answering that question seemed fated to remain pure...
Universe
The Milky Way: Island of Light
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the cosmos by exploring the faint band of light that sweeps across the night sky - our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The sun is just one of almost 400...
Universe
Black Holes: Heart of Darkness
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the universe with a journey into darkness. The centre of our galaxy is home to an invisible monster of unimaginable power - a supermassive black hole...
Universe
The Big Bang: Before the Dawn
- Broadcast
- 2021 (59 mins)
Professor Brian Cox asks the ultimate question: how did the Universe come to be? The Universe is daunting in its scale. We live on one planet of eight that orbit just one of the four hundred billion stars in...
The Planets
Episode 1 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planet
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In this major new landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled...
The Planets
Episode 2 - The Two Sisters - Earth and Mars
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Early in the story of The Planets, there was a beautiful water world, an oasis of hope in a sterile universe. But this was not Earth - this was the young Mars. Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the...