How The Universe Works

Beneath the hood of your car lies the history of the Universe. The iron in your chassis, the gold in your stereo and the copper in your electronics all owe their existence to violent cosmic events that took place billions of years ago.

Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Hakeem Oluseyi
Director(s): Mark Bridge
Writer(s): Eleanor Grant

There is a hellish planet in our solar system; covered in thick dense clouds and roasted by colossal temperatures. Incredibly this is a vision of Earth's future. To understand how our world will be destroyed we need to look at Earth's evil twin Venus.

Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe
Director(s): Mark Bridge
Writer(s): Eleanor Grant

Black holes are the least understood places in the universe, where the rules of physics collapse. We go inside the super-massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Phil Plait
Director(s): Mark Bridge
Writer(s): Madeleine Carter

Giant magnetic bubbles millions of miles wide, bizarre invisible matter, and a death star tearing through bands of icy comets, flinging them into violent orbits. All this and more could be inside our cosmic backyard, and effecting our lives on Earth.

Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Hakeem Oluseyi
Director(s): Mark Bridge
Writer(s): Eleanor Grant

We're on the verge of unconvering the how life on Earth came to be. Our origin is a hotly contested scientific debate. Did we come from strange volcanic hatcheries deep under the sea? Or did life on Earth come from another planet?

Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Phil Plait
Director(s): Mark Bridge
Writer(s): Eleanor Grant

Our Moon is stranger than you think, and we reveal its incredible secrets. Can we thank the Moon for life on Earth? What explains the mysterious tunnels beneath its surface? Is a lunar base the key to humanity's future in space?

Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Moogega Cooper
Writer(s): Madeleine Carter

For years, scientists suspected that the oceans came from molecules delivered to Earth from distant stars by asteroids, but a new discovery suggests that their true origins may be more exotic.

Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Moogega Cooper
Director(s): Mark Bridge
Writer(s): Madeleine Carter, Jeremy Turner

There's a mysterious force you can't see or touch, but it affects everything in the universe. Magnetism has shaped our cosmos, and without it, Creation would simply disintegrate. We follow scientists trying to understand how this strange force works.

Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe
Writer(s): Madeleine Carter