Solar System

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's weirdest worlds - the misfits and oddballs with freakish shapes and sizes. He visits an egg-shaped dwarf planet that shouldn't really exist, a tiny moon that looks like a UFO, a tortured patchwork moon, and an eerie ocean world in orbit around Jupiter. He also finds out how simple forces have created such bizarre places.

Professor Brian Cox on a journey 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, mountains coated with a strange metallic frost and monsoon rains on a moon a billion kilometres from Earth. These are among the most dramatic and violent worlds ever discovered.

Professor Brian Cox journeys to the volcano worlds of the solar system and explore alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent they reach into space. Understanding what makes these worlds active is critical in the search for life beyond Earth.

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. In the far reaches of the solar system, ice behaves in unimaginable ways and may have even created habitats for alien life.

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie shrouded in darkness. He visits some of its least explored regions and finds out what lies beyond the reach of even the most powerful telescopes. The solar system is not just a few worlds orbiting close to the sun - it's an enormous structure that stretches halfway to the nearest star.