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Slingshotting Through Space: Exploring Uranus and Neptune

In Slingshotting Through Space: Exploring Uranus and Neptune, Professor Brian Cox explains why Uranus and Neptune are so difficult to reach, and how the Voyager expedition took advantage of a planetary event that happens every few hundred years to speed through space so we could get a glimpse of these distant planets. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time, a series that seeks to explain our place in the Universe. Professor Brian Cox looks back on decades of discovery and toward the next frontier in space, pondering the question: What’s next?

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Getting Started: Life on Earth and Mars

In Getting Started: Life on Earth and Mars, Professor Brian Cox explains the conditions that are required for life to begin. Learn how Earth and Mars had these conditions at the same time. Could life have started in two places at once? Or might the life on Earth have come from outer space? This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.

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Mapping Mission: Reaching the Surface of Mercury

In Mapping Mission: Reaching the Surface of Mercury, Professor Brian Cox explains how scientists were able to send the space probe Messenger to Mercury, a particularly difficult planet for us to explore. This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.

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The Most Profound Question: Are We Alone?

In The Most Profound Question: Are We Alone?, Professor Brian Cox explains the most profound question that we can answer, and how humans can investigate Earth to support discoveries in outer space. This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.

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The Story of the Planets

In The Story of the Planets, Professor Brian Cox takes us through images of the planets and shares an overview of the expeditions that humans have taken to explore space. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time, a series that seeks to explain our place in the Universe. Professor Brian Cox looks back on decades of discovery and toward the next frontier in space, pondering the question: What’s next?

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Collision Course: Jupiter’s Impact on Earth

In Collision Course: Jupiter’s Impact on Earth, Professor Brian Cox explains what happened when an asteroid from the asteroid belt that is influenced by Jupiter split off and hit Earth. Watch how a small change millions of miles from Earth makes a dramatic impact on our planet. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time, a series that seeks to explain our place in the Universe. Professor Brian Cox looks back on decades of discovery and toward the next frontier in space, pondering the question: What’s next?

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Two Planets, Two Paths: Inside Earth and Mars

In Two Planets, Two Paths: Inside Earth and Mars, Professor Brian Cox explains what happened 4.6 billion years ago when Mars and Earth formed. The formation set these two planets, which were made of similar material, on very different paths. Learn how the magnetic field around Earth provides protection and how Mars’s magnetic field died out. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time, a series that seeks to explain our place in the Universe. Professor Brian Cox looks back on decades of discovery and toward the next frontier in space, pondering the question: What’s next?

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Understanding Water: The Key to Life on Earth
The article "Understanding Water: The Key to Life on Earth" from BBC Science Focus explains how water’s physical properties, like hydrogen bonding, allow it to support life on Earth. It highlights the importance of water in living organisms, the water cycle, and the discovery of water in space.
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Exploring the Strangest Locations in the Universe, Where the Rules of Nature Don’t Always Apply
The article "Exploring the Strangest Locations in the Universe, Where the Rules of Nature Don’t Always Apply" from BBC Science Focus is about the strange and mysterious places in space and on Earth where the rules of nature seem to be different. These places include planets made of diamonds, stars that spin too fast, and black holes that stretch and squeeze time.
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Witness the Thin Blue Line
In Witness the Thin Blue Line, Professor Brian Cox experiences a vertical take-off on the English Electric Lightning, which travels 11 miles into the upper edge of Earth’s atmosphere, where the atmosphere appears as a delicate "thin blue line" separating Earth from space. As the aircraft soars to the edge of space, gain a new perspective on the vital role of Earth’s atmosphere in sustaining life and protecting against the harshness of space. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Wonders of the Solar System, a spellbinding documentary series that explores the most extreme locations on Earth to explain how the laws of physics carved natural wonders across the Solar System.
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Finding Life? The Future of Mars

In Finding Life? The Future of Mars, Professor Brian Cox explains how scientists continue to explore Mars and what finding life on Mars means for the existence of life in the Universe. This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.

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A Boring Planet? Uranus

In A Boring Planet? Uranus, Professor Brian Cox explains what scientists have learned about Uranus, a planet described as featureless and boring. But Uranus does have a mystery! How did it end up tipped on its side with rings that circle it from top to bottom? This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.