The Planets Inner Worlds

The four planets closest to the sun, called the rocky planets, were born from the same material in the same era. But they couldn’t be more different: Tiny Mercury is the runt of the litter, almost like a moon. Venus is devilishly hot, and Mars is a frozen desert world. Only on Earth do we find the unique conditions for life as we know it. But why only here? Were Earth's neighbors always so extreme? And is there somewhere else in the solar system life might flourish? The rocky planets have similar origins, but only one supports life. Was it always this way?

Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled with astonishing spectacle and great drama. Using the data from our very latest explorations of the solar system combined with groundbreaking CGI this series reveals the unimaginable beauty and grandeur of eight planets whose stories we are only just beginning to understand.

Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BBC Earth docu-series The Planets. The album features selections of the original music composed by Anže Rozman (Great Bear Rainforest) and Andrew Christie (The Flood), as well as Jacob Shea (Seven Worlds One Planet, Planet Earth II) and David Fleming (Hillbilly Elegy, Blue Planet II) for Bleeding Fingers Music. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 5, 2021. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music service to stream/download the album. The Planets is narrated by Professor Brian Cox (in the original UK version) & Zachary Quinto (in the U.S. version) and follows the dramatic lives of the eight majestic planets that make up our solar system through five episodes. The series premiered in the UK in 2019 on BBC One and in the U.S. on PBS.

How to Leave Your Body and Travel the Universe

The inner planets, Mercury and Venus, orbit closest to the Sun, making them literally an Inferno of heat. NASA and other space agencies have attempted to learn more about these rocky planets. Follow the plucky probes that attempted to decipher the secrets of the Solar Systems.

A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond.