Season 2 (2012)

Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life
6.5

July 11, 2012 • 42m

Are we alone in the Universe? What makes Earth so different? Part of the answer is our volcanoes. without them we would not be her...Read more

Megastorms - The Winds of Creation
6.5

July 18, 2012 • 42m

Destructive weather forces are symptoms of Earth's creative energy. In our quest to discover if we are alone in the universe, we s...Read more

Exoplanets - Planets from Hell
7.0

July 25, 2012 • 42m

We once thought that the only planets were in our solar system. We have found many other planets but they are nothing like we expe...Read more

Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms
7.5

August 1, 2012 • 42m

The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode, magnetic monsters rip worlds apart, star-quakes s...Read more

Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation
9.0

August 8, 2012 • 42m

We owe our existence to the stability of earth's orbit. But we are the freaks: everywhere else we look we find orbits are chaotic...Read more

Comets - Frozen Wanderers
6.0

August 15, 2012 • 42m

As time machines from the early universe, comets could hold the key to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, and may even be the origi...Read more

Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were
9.0

August 22, 2012 • 42m

Asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs and may be back for us but they also built the Earth and may have brought life to its barren sur...Read more

Birth of the Earth
5.0

August 29, 2012 • 42m

The Earth was formed by a series of cataclysms without which we would not exist. Could the same events have created other earth-li...Read more