Watch The Universe Season 5 Episode 8 online Our Sun has served Earth well for almost five billion years. It’s bathed us with heat and energy. But like humans, our home star is mortal. In five billion years, it will stop nurturing its planetary offspring. The aging star will bloat out beyond the orbit of [...]

Watch The Universe Season 5 Episode 7 online Once they were dreaded and thought to be dragons eating the sun–but modern science has dispelled mythology and we now look forward to total Solar Eclipses as one of the most spectacular phenomena in the heavens. Explore the complex movements of Earth, Moon and Sun that produce [...]

Watch The Universe Season 5 Episode 6 online What are the latest discoveries in the deadly world of asteroids? Will a Japanese spacecraft become the first to bring an asteroid sample back home? What would happen to America’s east coast if the impact that helped form Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago struck today? And [...]

Watch The Universe Season 5 Episode 5 online They’ve discovered water on other planets, and snatched the actual building blocks of life from a comet’s tail. But can space probes find a new Earth and even make contact with alien life? In the 21st century, space probes are photographing, drilling and even sniffing new worlds [...]

Watch The Universe Season 5 Episode 4 online 1 of the universe’s most enduring mysteries is time travel. Discover why time travel to the future is unavoidable in the Einsteinian globe of relativity. As for that past the laws of physics don’t tell us it’s impossible, but the bizarre consequences of going into the past [...]