From the planets to the stars and out to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in a wondrous yet deadly adventure through space and time.
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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 87
- Latest aired
- S09E06
- Total runtime
- 2d 18h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 May 2007 – September 2007 14 episodes
- Season 2 November 2007 – April 2008 18 episodes
- Season 3 November 2008 – February 2009 12 episodes
- Season 4 August 2009 – November 2009 12 episodes
- Season 5 July 2010 – September 2010 8 episodes
- Season 6 October 2011 – December 2011 7 episodes
- Season 7 April 2012 – June 2012 7 episodes
- the show was away for 1 year and 8 months
- Season 8 March 2014 4 episodes
- Season 9 April 2015 – May 2015 5 episodes
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S01E01 Secrets of the Sun
May 29 · 45min find the promo
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Behold the sun and all of it's glory. Learn all things about the sun ranging from its beginning to its death. Also learn about how stars work in general and MUCH MUCH more.
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S01E02 Mars: The Red Planet
June 5 · 45min find the promo
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Visit the planet most like Earth. There is a discussion of what life on Mars would be like and about the life forms that could've evolved there.
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S01E03 The End of the Earth: Deep Space Threats to our Planet
June 12 · 45min find the promo
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Asteroids, comets, gamma ray bursts and the sun all combine to make the Earth a dangerous place to live. NASA's top brass and other scientists are arming themselves with the latest technology to pre-empt an apocalyptic attack. Watch and investigate bizarre, and terrifying apocalyptic scenarios and the ways that scientists are racing against the clock to develop technology to defend our planet.
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S01E04 Jupiter: The Giant Planet
June 19 · 45min find the promo
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Jupiter poses many questions about our solar system. It is a powerful planet of gas whose flowing colors and spots are beautiful, but contain violent storms and jet streams. A mini solar system of over sixty moons rotate around Jupiter--a half billion miles from earth. Could one of these moons contain life under its icy crust?
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S01E05 The Moon
June 26 · 45min find the promo
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The moon has comforted man for thousands of years. It's been everything from a god to a compass, and the only cosmic body human beings have ever visited. NASA is planning to build a permanent outpost there. Discover how the moon came to be--if you don't already know, you will be astounded.
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S01E06 Spaceship Earth
July 10 · 45min find the promo
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Take a high performance ride through the formation of the third planet from the Sun, Earth... A survivor of one of the most violent "neighborhoods" in the Universe, learn how Earth was created and discover what creatures hold clues to how life began. What evil forces threaten the demise of Earth? Complex and controversial, this is the scientific detective story of all time.
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S01E07 The Inner Planets: Mercury & Venus
July 17 · 45min find the promo
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Examining Mercury and Venus. Included: exploring how the damages they've suffered from cosmic collisions and acid rain may serve as a warning for Earth.
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S01E08 Saturn: Lord of the Rings
July 24 · 45min find the promo
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Are the rings of Saturn a real celestial phenomenon or merely a cosmic Illusion? Technology allows the experts to get closer to the furthest planet visible to the naked eye. Old questions are answered and new ones arise. Does Saturn hold the key to Earth's weather and will one of its moons supply us with all the oil we'll ever need?
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S01E09 Alien Galaxies
July 31 · 45min find the promo
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Our galaxy is one of hundreds of billions in the universe. View of universe through the Hubble telescope and go back almost all the way to the Big Bang.
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S01E10 Life and Death of a Star
August 7 · 45min find the promo
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Ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful. They collide, devour each other, and explode in enormous supernovas--the biggest explosions in the Universe.
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S01E11 The Outer Planets
August 14 · 45min find the promo
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This episode details outer lying planets and their moons. Included will be Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Using CGI, we will also see what alien life might look like on other worlds.
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S01E12 The Most Dangerous Place in the Universe
August 21 · 45min find the promo
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Take a tour of the cosmic hot zones--black holes, galaxy mergers, gamma ray bursts and magnetars. Super black holes can literally lasso Earth out of the solar system. A clash between two galaxies can result in a ritual called galactic cannibalism. Magnetars are a cosmic magnetic force so strong it could wipe out data on every credit card.
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S01E13 Search for ET
August 28 · 45min find the promo
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Are we alone? SETI--the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence--is a privately funded project using radio telescopes and optical telescopes to scan the stars for signals.
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S01E14 Beyond the Big Bang
September 4 · 90min find the promo
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The universe began with a massive expansion, billions and billions of years ago, and it continues to expand with every passing second. The idea that the universe, and man's very existence, began with a "Big Bang" is no longer a topic of debate among most scientists--it is essentially taken as fact.