Episode 1
Volcano Worlds
59m6.7 / 10
Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions so violent they reach into space.
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Solar System
2024TV-PG1 season8.3 / 10
Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries on the diverse worlds that orbit the sun.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Synopsis
Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries on the diverse worlds that orbit the sun.
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Episode 2
Dark Worlds
58m6.7 / 10
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.
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Episode 3
Storm Worlds
58m5.0 / 10
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's wildest weather, encountering powerful lightning, strange metallic frosts and monsoon rains on a moon a billion kilometres from Earth.
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Episode 4
Ice Worlds
58m8.0 / 10
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.
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Episode 5
Strange Worlds
58m6.7 / 10finale
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's misfits and oddballs and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.
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More about Solar System
Cast
Professor Brian CoxSelf - PresenterProduction details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Miniseries
- Episodes
- 5
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
BBC TwoUnited Kingdom
BBC Studios Science UnitUnited Kingdom
NOVAUnited States
GBHUnited States
Themes
planetssolar systemspacespace exploration
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