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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....
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep4 - Friends Forever
- Broadcast
- 2025 (62 mins)
Emotions are something that most fighter pilots learn to suppress, but when astronaut and former fighter pilot Terry Virts fits one of the last pieces of the International Space Station, that’s exactly how...
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep3 - Politics Always Wins
- Broadcast
- 2025 (61 mins)
Ginger Kerrick had dreamed of becoming a Nasa astronaut for as long as she could remember, so she’s over the moon when she’s selected for an interview. But her hopes came crashing down when a routine...
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep2 - The Russian Thing
- Broadcast
- 2025 (65 mins)
Like many Russians in the early 90s, Sergei Zalyotin is struggling to make ends meet. He moonlights as a taxi driver for extra cash, not unusual in post-communist Russia. What’s unusual is his other job:...
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep1 - America First
- Broadcast
- 2025 (61 mins)
In 1978, Ron McNair, Anna Fisher and Mike Mullane are all selected by NASA to fly aboard the newly unveiled space shuttle. For the first time in the agency’s history, aspiring astronauts of all genders and...
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...
8 Days to the Moon and Back
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (88 mins)
8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds. That’s the total duration of the most important and celebrated space mission ever flown - Apollo 11 - when humans first set foot on the Moon. It was a journey that...
The Planets
Episode 5 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the final episode of The Planets, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple...