Cosmic Journeys
Cosmic Journeys consists of eighteen episodes which explore the cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets.
Episode 01 - Crashing into the Moon
A whole new space race has begun. Over the next decade, the United States, Germany, England, Japan, India, China, Russia, and even a few private companies have plans to send rockets to explore the moon.
Episode 02 - Super Hurricanes
Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted?
Episode 03 - The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide?
Episode 04 - How Large is the Universe?
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time.
Episode 05 - When Will Time End?
It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory checks out.
Episode 06 - The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
It's the ultimate buddy movie. Forty years ago, on November 19, 1969, astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the moon in one of the most important of the Apollo flights.
Episode 07 - Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center.
Episode 08 - The Search for Earth-Like Planets
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration?
Episode 09 - Voyage to Pandora: The First Interstellar Space Flight
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.
Episode 10 - Venus: Death of a Planet
From the fires of our Sun's birth, twin planets emerged: Venus and Earth. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life, while enveloping the other in acid clouds, high heat, and volcanic flows.
Episode 11 - Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes
What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole?
Episode 12 - Is the Universe Infinite?
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.
Episode 13 - Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
What planets are likely to have the right conditions? And what makes Earth special?
Episode 14 - Attack of the Sun
Massive solar eruptions could threaten our high-tech society. The year was 2003... with Halloween approaching... 93 million miles away... an angry sun began to vent its rage.
Episode 15 - Saturn's Mysterious Moons
A giant gas planet Saturn is surrounded by colorful rings, guarded by a diverse collection of moons, and millions of tiny moonlets.
Episode 16 - The Asteroid that Flattened Mars
Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise? If so, does anything still live within Mars' dusty plains, beneath its ice caps, or somewhere underground?
Episode 17 - The Riddle of Antimatter
Our understanding of cosmic history hangs on the question: how did matter as we know it survive? And what happened to its birth twin, its opposite, a mysterious substance known as antimatter?
Episode 18 - Mysteries of a Dark Universe
Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-increasing rate.