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Space's Deepest Secrets

Season 1 2016
TV-14

  • 2016-04-27T02:00:00Z on Science
  • 45m
  • 9h 48m (14 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
The stories of deep-space explorers who are risking their careers, and even their lives, to lead humanity to worlds yet to be seen.

14 episodes

Series Premiere

2016-04-27T02:00:00Z

1x01 The Universe's Greatest Hits

Series Premiere

1x01 The Universe's Greatest Hits

  • 2016-04-27T02:00:00Z42m

From the mission that saw Pluto for the first time to the Mars rovers, a new breed of explorers are risking their careers, and even their lives, to lead humanity to worlds we have never seen and tackle the mysteries of life itself.

2016-05-04T02:00:00Z

1x02 Hunt for Dark Energy

1x02 Hunt for Dark Energy

  • 2016-05-04T02:00:00Z42m

World scientists are searching for Dark Energy, the biggest challenge of physics; In Europe, a multi-billion dollar satellite will map the sky from space.

2016-05-11T02:00:00Z

1x03 Death of the Solar System

An exploration of the dramatic fate of our future descendants, the technology they’ll need to survive the end of this world billions of years from now and our options for colonizing and starting again on a new planet somewhere far from Earth.

2016-05-18T02:00:00Z

1x04 Alien Oceans

1x04 Alien Oceans

  • 2016-05-18T02:00:00Z42m

A soaring quest through the solar system’s exotic and hidden water realms, from the deep seas below the icy crust of Europa to the vast prehistoric oceans that once existed on Mars billions of years ago.

Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, the Voyager spacecraft is going to leave the Solar System to tell the incredible story of a mission that was only supposed to last five years but is still going today.

2016-06-01T02:00:00Z

1x06 The Plot Against Gravity

The story of how a large aerospace company, BAE Systems, began a secret project to counter the force of gravity while NASA simultaneously ran a similar ‘Breakthrough Propulsion Physics’ program.

2016-06-08T02:00:00Z

1x07 Attack of the Space Junk

The efforts of the U.S. government and others to combat the threat posed by space junk, which could derail the future of space travel if left unchecked.

2016-06-15T02:00:00Z

1x08 Quest for the First Star

1x08 Quest for the First Star

  • 2016-06-15T02:00:00Z42m

The search for the first stars of the universe.

2016-06-22T02:00:00Z

1x09 When the Sun Attacks

1x09 When the Sun Attacks

  • 2016-06-22T02:00:00Z42m

When the sun flares up, billions of tons of superheated gas and intense radiation are propelled toward Earth; experts are trying to predict what is coming toward the Earth and how to prepare for this threat.

An in-depth look at how NASA is preparing for its most ambitious and dangerous mission yet; to land a human being on the surface of Mars.

The discovery of exoplanets pushes scientists to reexamine the origin of the Solar System; the evidence infers a tale of unrestrained collisions and chaos.

Scientists are working to determine if parallel universes exist.

Scientists are finally on the hunt to finally crack the dark secrets of the atoms that make up the universe.

Season Finale

2016-08-28T02:00:00Z

1x14 Inside a Monster Black Hole

Season Finale

1x14 Inside a Monster Black Hole

  • 2016-08-28T02:00:00Z42m

Inside the supermassive black hole that sits in the middle of our galaxy.

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