How the Universe Works is the greatest story ever told, the creation of everything us. The programme investigates how the Universe came into existence out of nothing, and how it grew from a miniscule point, smaller than an atomic particle, to the vast cosmos we see today.
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How the Universe Works Airs: Sunday
How the Universe Works Status: Break
Returns: Unknown
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - General Information
Series Premiere: April 25, 2010 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Documentary Network: Science Airs: Sunday at 10:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 1 -- 8 Episodes
1x1 -- Apr 25, 2010 -- Big Bang 1x2 -- May 02, 2010 -- Black Holes 1x3 -- May 10, 2010 -- Galaxies (aka Alien Galaxies) 1x4 -- May 10, 2010 -- Extreme Stars 1x5 -- May 17, 2010 -- Supernovas 1x6 -- May 17, 2010 -- Planets (aka Extreme Planets) 1x7 -- May 24, 2010 -- Solar Systems 1x8 -- May 24, 2010 -- Moons (aka Alien Moons)
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 2 -- 8 Episodes
2x1 -- Jul 11, 2012 -- Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life 2x2 -- Jul 18, 2012 -- Megastorms - The Winds of Creation 2x3 -- Jul 25, 2012 -- Exoplanets - Planets from Hell 2x4 -- Aug 01, 2012 -- Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms 2x5 -- Aug 08, 2012 -- Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation 2x6 -- Aug 15, 2012 -- Comets - Frozen Wanderers 2x7 -- Aug 22, 2012 -- Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were 2x8 -- Aug 29, 2012 -- Birth of the Earth
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 3 -- 9 Episodes
3x1 -- Jul 09, 2014 -- Journey from the Center of the Sun 3x2 -- Jul 16, 2014 -- The End of the Universe 3x3 -- Jul 23, 2014 -- Jupiter: Destroyer or Savior? 3x4 -- Jul 30, 2014 -- First Second of the Big Bang 3x5 -- Aug 06, 2014 -- Is Saturn Alive? 3x6 -- Aug 13, 2014 -- Weapons of Mass Extinction 3x7 -- Aug 20, 2014 -- Did a Black Hole Build the Milky Way? 3x8 -- Aug 27, 2014 -- Our Voyage to the Stars (aka Starman) 3x9 -- Sep 03, 2014 -- The Search for a Second Earth
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 4 -- 8 Episodes
4x1 -- Jul 14, 2015 -- How the Universe Built Your Car 4x2 -- Jul 21, 2015 -- Earth: Venus's Evil Twin 4x3 -- Jul 28, 2015 -- Monster Black Hole 4x4 -- Aug 04, 2015 -- Edge of the Solar System 4x5 -- Aug 11, 2015 -- Dawn of Life 4x6 -- Aug 18, 2015 -- Secret History of the Moon 4x7 -- Aug 25, 2015 -- The First Oceans 4x8 -- Sep 01, 2015 -- Forces of Mass Construction (aka Magnetism)
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 5 -- 8 Episodes
5x1 -- Nov 29, 2016 -- Mystery of Planet 9 5x2 -- Dec 06, 2016 -- Black Holes: The Secret Origin 5x3 -- Jan 03, 2017 -- Secret History of Pluto 5x4 -- Jan 10, 2017 -- Stars That Kill 5x5 -- Jan 17, 2017 -- The Universe's Deadliest 5x6 -- Jan 24, 2017 -- Life and Death on the Red Planet 5x7 -- Jan 31, 2017 -- The Dark Matter Enigma 5x8 -- Feb 07, 2017 -- Strangest Alien Worlds
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 6 -- 10 Episodes
6x1 -- Jan 09, 2018 -- Are Black Holes Real? 6x2 -- Jan 16, 2018 -- Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries 6x3 -- Jan 23, 2018 -- Dark History of the Solar System 6x4 -- Jan 30, 2018 -- Death of the Milky Way 6x5 -- Feb 06, 2018 -- Uranus & Neptune: Rise of the Ice Giants 6x6 -- Feb 13, 2018 -- Secret History of Mercury 6x7 -- Feb 20, 2018 -- The Quasar Enigma 6x8 -- Feb 27, 2018 -- Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets 6x9 -- Mar 06, 2018 -- War on Asteroids 6x10 -- Mar 13, 2018 -- Mystery of Spacetime
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 7 -- 10 Episodes
7x1 -- Jan 08, 2019 -- Nightmares of Neutron Stars 7x2 -- Jan 15, 2019 -- When Supernovas Strike 7x3 -- Jan 22, 2019 -- The Interstellar Mysteries 7x4 -- Jan 29, 2019 -- How Black Holes Made Us 7x5 -- Feb 05, 2019 -- Secret World of Nebulas 7x6 -- Feb 12, 2019 -- Did the Big Bang Really Happen? 7x7 -- Feb 19, 2019 -- Battle of the Dark Universe 7x8 -- Feb 26, 2019 -- Hunt for Alien Life 7x9 -- Mar 05, 2019 -- Finding the New Earth 7x10 -- Mar 12, 2019 -- Cassini's Final Secrets
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 8 -- 9 Episodes
8x1 -- Jan 02, 2020 -- Asteroid Apocalypse: The New Threat 8x2 -- Jan 09, 2020 -- NASA's Journey to Mars 8x3 -- Jan 16, 2020 -- Hunt for Alien Evidence 8x4 -- Jan 23, 2020 -- Death of the Last Stars 8x5 -- Jan 30, 2020 -- Secrets of Time Travel 8x6 -- Feb 06, 2020 -- When NASA Met Jupiter 8x7 -- Feb 13, 2020 -- Edge of the Universe 8x8 -- Feb 20, 2020 -- Monsters of the Milky Way 8x9 -- Feb 27, 2020 -- Earth's Death Orbit
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 9 -- 12 Episodes
9x1 -- Mar 24, 2021 -- Journey to a Black Hole 9x2 -- Mar 31, 2021 -- Mission to a Comet 9x3 -- Apr 07, 2021 -- Secrets of the Sun 9x4 -- Apr 14, 2021 -- Aliens of the Microcosmos 9x5 -- Apr 21, 2021 -- Curse of the White Dwarf 9x6 -- Apr 28, 2021 -- War of the Galaxies 9x7 -- May 05, 2021 -- The Next Supernova 9x8 -- May 12, 2021 -- Secret Lives of Neutrinos 9x9 -- May 19, 2021 -- Birth of the Monster Black Holes 9x10 -- May 26, 2021 -- Gravitational Waves Revealed 9x11 -- Jun 02, 2021 -- Mystery of Alien Worlds 9x12 -- Mar 06, 2022 -- Secrets of the Cosmic Web
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 10 -- 8 Episodes
10x1 -- Mar 06, 2022 -- Secrets of the Cosmic Web 10x2 -- Mar 13, 2022 -- Curse of the Cosmic Rays 10x3 -- Mar 20, 2022 -- Hunt for Dark Matter 10x4 -- Mar 27, 2022 -- Dark History of Earth 10x5 -- Apr 03, 2022 -- Hunt for the Universe's Origin 10x6 -- Apr 10, 2022 -- Voyager's Ultimate Mission 10x7 -- Mar 05, 2023 -- The Moons of Saturn 10x8 -- Mar 12, 2023 -- A Robot's Guide to Mars
HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS - Season 11 -- 5 Episodes
11x1 -- Mar 05, 2023 -- The Moons of Saturn 11x2 -- Mar 12, 2023 -- A Robot's Guide to Mars 11x3 -- Mar 19, 2023 -- Most Violent Event in the Universe 11x4 -- Mar 26, 2023 -- Asteroid: Countdown to Catastrophe 11x5 -- Apr 02, 2023 -- Solar System Special
