How the Universe Works — Season 4

Jul 201542m

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.

Jul 201542m

An examination of Venus; and what it may indicate about Earth's future.

Jul 201542m

A look inside the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way to discover terrifying secrets about parallel universes, wormholes, and space-time.

Aug 201542m

Huge magnetic bubbles millions of miles wide; strange invisible matter, and a death star tearing through bands of icy comets, flinging them into violent orbits.

Aug 201542m

Discovering how life on Earth came to be; the possibility that life on Earth come from another planet.

Aug 201542m

The incredible secrets of the moon are revealed; the moon might be responsible for life on Earth.

Aug 201542m

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.

Sept 201542m

Scientists attempt to understand how this strange force of magnetism works.