How The Universe Works Season 2

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Volcanoes-The Furnaces Of Life]
Details : Are we alone in the Universe? What makes Earth so different? Part of the answer is our volcanoes. without them we would not be here either. Today we are discovering volcanoes on alien worlds. Are these worlds where tomorrow we might find life?
Air Date : Jul. 11, 2012 | Rating ★★★★★★

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Megastorms-The Winds Of Creation]
Details : Destructive weather forces are symptoms of Earth's creative energy. In our quest to discover if we are alone in the universe we shouldn't just look for worlds we should look for weather; find that megastorm and maybe we will find alien life.
Air Date : Jul. 18, 2012 | Rating ★★★★★★

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [Exoplanets-Planets From Hell]
Details : We once thought that the only planets were in our solar system. We have found many other planets but they are nothing like we expected from deep-frozen toxic snowballs to scorched and boiling nightmares. Is every planet out there a planet fom Hell?
Air Date : Jul. 25, 2012 | Rating ★★★★★★

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [Megaflares-Cosmic Firestorms]
Details : The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode magnetic monsters rip worlds apart star-quakes shoot beams of devastating energy and galactic flamethrowers fire gamma-rays half way across the Universe. Will we find Earth in the firing line?
Air Date : Aug. 01, 2012 | Rating ★★★★★★

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [Extreme Orbits-Clockwork And Creation]
Details : 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 unstable and violent. Yet on the very largest scale orbits are also a creative force even constructing the fabric of the universe itself.
Air Date : Aug. 08, 2012

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Comets-Frozen Wanderers]
Details : As time machines from the early universe comets could hold the key to unlock the secrets of the cosmos and may even be the origin of life itself. In this episode we learn that comets are even more mysterious and fascinating than we had ever imagined.
Air Date : Aug. 15, 2012

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Asteroids-Worlds That Never Were]
Details : 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 surface. Asteroids will shape our future as much as our past and scientists are striving to unlock their secrets.
Air Date : Aug. 22, 2012

How The Universe Works Season 2 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [Birth Of The Earth]
Details : The Earth was formed by a series of cataclysms without which we would not exist. Could the same events have created other earth-like planets elsewhere in the Universe inhabited by creatures like us?
Air Date : Aug. 29, 2012