Solar System
Solar System is a TV show on BBC2. Diamond rain, supersized volcanoes, exploding oceans - and we have a front row seat for it all. Professor Brian Cox reveals the strange worlds visible to us as never before. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 5 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2024.
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Solar System
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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Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.
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.
Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.
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.