Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Birth of the Moon
- Season 1 Attack of the Sun
- Season 1 Super Hurricanes
- Season 1 Saturn's Mysterious Moons
- Season 1 The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
- Season 1 How Large Is the Universe?
- Season 1 When Will Time End
- Season 1 The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
- Season 1 Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
- Season 1 Mars: Earth That Never Was
- Season 1 The Search for Earth-like Planets
- Season 1 Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight
- Season 1 Venus: Death of a Planet
- Season 1 Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes
- Season 1 Is the Universe Infinite?
- Season 1 Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
- Season 1 The Riddle of AntiMatter
- Season 1 Mysteries of a Dark Universe
- Season 1 Crashing Into the Moon
- Season 1 The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
- Season 1 Birth of a Black Hole
- Season 1 Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms
- Season 1 Voyager: Journey to the Stars
- Season 1 Earth in 1000 Years
- Season 1 Reinventing Space Flight
- Season 1 Supervolcanoes
- Season 1 Fate of Antarctica
- Season 1 Life: Destiny or Chance?
- Season 1 Interstellar Flight
- Season 1 The Age of Hubble
- Season 1 Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth
- Season 1 Hubble: Universe in Motion
- Season 1 SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
- Season 1 Day of the Asteroid
- Season 1 Black Holes and the High Energy Universe
- Season 1 The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth
- Season 1 Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy
Cosmic Journeys - Season 1 Episode 36 The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth
7.70 24 minutes Planet hunters have detected nearly 5000 confirmed and candidate planets beyond our solar system. Most sun-like stars, it seems, are ringed with giant planets that crowd their parent stars and leave no room for planets like ours. The old theories about planetary formation are giving way to a new one defined by fierce gravitational battles and titanic collisions. How did Earth manage to survive?
