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  • 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...

  • 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

    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....

  • 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...

  • 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 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

    Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth

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    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 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...

  • The Planets

    Episode 3 - The Godfather

    Broadcast
    2019 (58 mins)

    Professor Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the...

  • 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...