The Universe

It is a fireball in the sky, a bubbling, boiling, kinetic sphere of white hot plasma, exploding and erupting.

It has been fifty years since man first ventured into space, but the greatest secrets are yet to be revealed.

Asteroids, comets, gamma ray bursts and the sun all combine to make the Earth a dangerous place to live.

Jupiter poses many questions about our solar system. It is a powerful planet of gas whose flowing colors and spots are beautiful, but contain violent storms and jet streams.

The moon has comforted man for thousands of years. It's been everything from a god to a compass, and the only cosmic body human beings have ever visited.

Take a high performance ride through the formation of the third planet from the Sun, Earth.

Scorched by their proximity to the sun, Mercury and Venus are hostile worlds.

Are the rings of Saturn a real celestial phenomenon or merely a cosmic illusion? Technology allows the experts to get closer to the furthest planet visible to the naked eye. Old questions are answered and new ones arise.

To know our place in the universe take a look far, far away to the realm of Alien Galaxies. Our galaxy is one of hundreds of billions in the universe.

Ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful.

New discoveries regarding the Outer Planets are creating a fundamental rethinking of our solar system. Uranus is a toxic combination of hydrogen, helium and methane.

Take a tour of the cosmic hot zones--black holes, galaxy mergers, gamma ray bursts and magnetars. Super massive black holes can literally "lasso" the Earth out of the solar system.

In a galaxy filled with a billion stars, in a universe filled with a hundred billion galaxies--are we alone?