Cosmic Journeys - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes35
DatesJul 20, 2009 - Jun 16, 2016
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
Birth of the Moon
Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the Moon by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and craters, and probing its interior. Find out what the origins of the Moon can tell us about our own planet's beginnings.
Jul 20, 2009
Season 1Episode 260 min
Attack of the Sun
Massive solar eruptions can pose a serious threat to our high-tech society. Learn about the havoc caused by the solar storms of Halloween 2003 and 1859. Dive into the inner regions of the Sun to find out what can cause our star to turn angry.
Jul 27, 2009
Season 1Episode 360 min
Super Hurricanes
Monster storms around the world seem to be occurring with greater frequency. But what is causing these typhoons and hurricanes that leave so much destruction in their wake? Can science unlock the mysterious origins of these super storms and is the worst still yet to come?
Aug 12, 2009
Season 1Episode 460 min
Saturn's Mysterious Moons
From the Cassini spacecraft comes one of the greatest photographic collections of all time. Scientists are using images of Saturn's moons to uncover a trail of clues pointing to the energy sources and complex chemistry needed to spawn life.
Aug 25, 2009
Season 1Episode 560 min
The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
Our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to harbor millions of black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there's evidence of something far more ominous. A breed of black holes that has reached incomprehensible size and destructive power. Just how large, and violent, and strange can they get?
Sep 27, 2009
Season 1Episode 660 min
How Large Is the Universe?
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the first micro-moments of our universe. Just as scientists began to make precise measurements of the observable universe, new ideas suggest that our visible patch is an impossibly small portion of the whole.
Oct 20, 2009
Season 1Episode 760 min
When Will Time End
Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes from second to second. At the same time, the arc of the human lifespan is getting longer: 67 years is the global average, up from just 20 years in the Stone Age. How much time does the universe have? The answer may depend on whether Stephen Hawking was right in his theory that describes how black holes shed mass and eventually decay.
Nov 10, 2009
Season 1Episode 860 min
The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
This is the ultimate buddy movie. November 14, 1969. Three astronauts with spacesuits, food, water, and a battery of scientific and communications equipment prepared to fly to the moon. Thousands gathered at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. How would the launch fare in a powerful electrical storm now gathering above the launch pad? That was just the start of Apollo 12's incredible journey.
Nov 18, 2009
Season 1Episode 960 min
Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of our Milky Way galaxy. And yet, the clues have been piling up that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are preparing to capture the first direct image of a supermassive black hole.
Dec 9, 2009
Season 1Episode 1060 min
Mars: Earth That Never Was
Mars appears to be devoid of all life, but what about below the surface? Could this dusty red planet ever have been host to a multitude of microbiological life? Come explore these questions with the latest imagery and data from NASA.
Dec 21, 2009
Season 1Episode 1160 min
The Search for Earth Like Planets
The latest from the planet-hunting frontier. Find out what we are learning about our place in the cosmos from the search for earth-like planets. This journey started tens of thousands of years ago, when humans began to fan out across the planet, following unknown pathways, crossing unmeasured distances. We traced coastlines, and sailed uncertain seas.
Jan 8, 2010
Season 1Episode 1260 min
Voyage to Pandora
Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system.
Feb 8, 2010
Season 1Episode 1360 min
Venus: Death of a Planet
Why did Earth thrive and our sister planet, Venus, became a dead planet alien to life? From the fires of our sun's birth, twin planets emerged. But heir paths diverged, as nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life, while enveloping the other in acid clouds, high heat and volcanic flows. Scientists are looking for clues in Venus' history that explain its disastrous turn for the worst.
Jun 9, 2010
Season 1Episode 1460 min
The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
All across the immense reaches of time and space, energy is being exchanged, transferred, released, in a great cosmic pinball game we call our universe. This episodes traces the progression of energy events from the smallest and coldest, to the hottest and most powerful in all the cosmos.
Sep 10, 2010
Season 1Episode 1560 min
Is the Universe Infinite?
Explore the biggest question of all. How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern times, we built giant telescopes that have allowed us to cast our gaze deep into the universe. Astronomers have been able to look back to near the time of its birth. They've reconstructed the course of cosmic history in astonishing detail.
Nov 23, 2010
Season 1Episode 1660 min
Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. Scientists are beginning to envision what these worlds are like, and in the process, redefining what a planet might need to spawn life.
Feb 21, 2011
Season 1Episode 1760 min
The Riddle of AntiMatter
One of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be may finally be yielding to human investigation. Scientists are mounting new efforts to figure out how matter survived, and what happened to its birth twin, a mysterious substance known as antimatter?
Aug 19, 2011
Season 1Episode 1860 min
Mysteries of a Dark Universe
Cosmology has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-increasing rate. Find out what this Nobel Prize winning discovery means for the future of our universe.
Oct 14, 2011
Season 1Episode 1960 min
Crashing Into the Moon
Astronomers have been tracking stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy to probe a monster black hole that lurks in its dense gas clouds and star fields. They have turned up the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole.
May 11, 2012
Season 1Episode 2060 min
Birth of a Black Hole
It was one of the greatest mysteries in modern science: a series of brief but extremely bright flashes of ultra-high energy light coming from somewhere out in space. These gamma ray bursts were first spotted by spy satellites in the 1960s. It took three decades and a revolution in high-energy astronomy for scientists to figure out what they were.
Nov 29, 2012
Season 1Episode 2160 min
Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms
Modern science has linked polar light shows, called auroras, to vast waves of electrified gas hurled in our direction by the sun. Today, researchers from a whole new generation see this dynamic substance, plasma, as an energy source that may one day fuel humanity's expansion into space. What can we learn, and how far can we go, by tapping into the strange and elusive fourth state of matter?
Feb 15, 2013
Season 1Episode 2260 min
Voyager: Journey to the Stars
Having travelled tens of billions of kilometres away from Earth, the two Voyager spacecraft are streaking out into the void. What will we learn about the galaxy, the universe, and ourselves from Voyager's epic journey to the stars?
Apr 7, 2013
Season 1Episode 2360 min
Earth in 1000 Years
With the polar ice caps continuing to melt and sea levels on the rise, scientists are looking back into our global climate history to see where our planet may be headed 1,000 years into the future and beyond.
Oct 4, 2013
Season 1Episode 2460 min
Reinventing Space Flight
Feb 3, 2014
Season 1Episode 2560 min
Supervolcanoes
They are eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mass extinction. Worse than a killer asteroid, or nuclear war, they are Earth's most destructive Supervolcanoes.
May 24, 2014
Season 1Episode 2660 min
Fate of Antarctica
As warming global climates eat away at the ice sheets that cover the continent of Antarctica, researchers are closely studying its impact on the rest of the world. The scientific data being collected suggests that the fate of the world as we know it may be linked to the fate of Antarctica.
Jul 21, 2014
Season 1Episode 2760 min
LIFE: Destiny or Chance?
Are the physical laws of the universe so exact that the formation of life was merely an inevitable outcome? Or is the existence of life just a lucky roll of the cosmic dice? We look for the answer in the rise of the two most important components for life: dust and water.
Sep 19, 2014
Season 1Episode 2860 min
Interstellar Flight
Explore the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long voyage out into the depths of the galaxy. What imperatives will motivate the launch of the first interstellar mission: scientific curiosity, or the need to survive beyond our home planet?
Oct 29, 2014
Season 1Episode 2960 min
The Age of Hubble
Dec 13, 2014
Season 1Episode 3060 min
Hubble: Universe in Motion
Jul 31, 2015
Season 1Episode 3160 min
SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
Dec 19, 2015
Season 1Episode 3260 min
The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth
Planet hunters have detected nearly 5000 confirmed and candidate planets beyond our solar system. Most sun-like stars, it seems, are ringed with giant planets that crowd their parent stars and leave no room for planets like ours. The old theories about planetary formation are giving way to a new one defined by fierce gravitational battles and titanic collisions. How did Earth manage to survive?
Jun 16, 2016
Season 1Episode 3360 min
Day of the Asteroid
Asteroids racing through the solar system have smashed into Earth before. What are the chances we'll get hit again? Armed with new defensive technologies, scientists are getting ready for the inevitable day, a decade, century, or millennia from now: the Day of the Asteroid.
Season 1Episode 3460 min
Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth
Season 1Episode 3560 min
HyperEarth
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