Will Mars or Venus Kill You First?

Humans have been talking about space colonization for quite some time, but our neighboring planets are not exactly the most hospitable places. If we are ever going to be successful, we should probably figure out where we could reasonably expect to survive.

Season 2 Episode 15 Length 08:44 Premiere: 02/03/16

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Is the LHC Creating Dark Matter?

S11 E23 Length 18:18 Premiere Date 03/05/26

Dark Energy Is Driving the Universe Apart. We May Finally Know Why.

S11 E22 Length 19:02 Premiere Date 02/19/26

Our Only Chance To Finally Unlock The Gravity Particle

S11 E21 Length 16:26 Premiere Date 02/05/26

The Particle We’ve Been Chasing for 30 Years Might Not Exist

S11 E20 Length 18:33 Premiere Date 01/22/26

The Universe Itself Might Be Hiding the Gravity Particle From Us

S11 E19 Length 18:42 Premiere Date 01/13/26

Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Explain It

S11 E18 Length 25:02 Premiere Date 12/11/25

Clips & Previews

Black Holes from the Dawn of Time

Preview Length 10:16 Premiere Date 01/25/17

Quantum Entanglement (The Bohr-Einstein Debate)

Preview Length 11:24 Premiere Date 01/11/17

Will the Universe Expand Forever?

Preview Length 09:51 Premiere Date 09/04/16

Specials

Black Holes. Explained. For 1.5 Hours.

Length 1:38:18 Premiere Date 12/18/25

Strange Stars

Length 09:58 Premiere Date 03/01/17

Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?

Length 12:22 Premiere Date 02/16/17

The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse

Length 12:52 Premiere Date 02/09/17

The First Humans on Mars

Length 07:51 Premiere Date 02/02/17

Life on Europa?

Length 09:37 Premiere Date 01/18/17

Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination

Length 09:57 Premiere Date 12/25/16

Season 2 Episodes

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The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse

S2 E48 Length 11:10 Premiere Date 10/26/16

The First Humans On Mars

S2 E47 Length 06:18 Premiere Date 10/19/16

Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge

S2 E45 Length 06:19 Premiere Date 10/05/16

Life on Europa?

S2 E44 Length 09:33 Premiere Date 09/29/16

Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination

S2 E42 Length 09:48 Premiere Date 09/14/16

Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer

S2 E41 Length 08:21 Premiere Date 09/07/16

Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?

S2 E40 Length 10:14 Premiere Date 08/24/16

How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past

S2 E39 Length 10:06 Premiere Date 08/10/16

Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth?

S2 E38 Length 10:34 Premiere Date 08/03/16

The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality

S2 E37 Length 10:27 Premiere Date 07/27/16

The Future of Gravitational Waves

S2 E36 Length 05:49 Premiere Date 07/20/16

Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past

S2 E35 Length 10:15 Premiere Date 07/06/16

Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics

S2 E34 Length 11:02 Premiere Date 06/22/16

The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing

S2 E33 Length 09:42 Premiere Date 06/16/16

Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?

S2 E31 Length 09:52 Premiere Date 06/01/16

Is an Ice Age Coming?

S2 E30 Length 12:10 Premiere Date 05/25/16

Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy

S2 E29 Length 12:04 Premiere Date 05/18/16

What Does Dark Energy Really Do?

S2 E28 Length 09:50 Premiere Date 04/27/16

Why the Universe Needs Dark Energy

S2 E27 Length 09:33 Premiere Date 04/20/16

Will the Universe Expand Forever?

S2 E26 Length 13:10 Premiere Date 04/13/16

We Are Star Stuff

S2 E24 Length 10:38 Premiere Date 04/06/16

Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?

S2 E23 Length 08:51 Premiere Date 04/04/16

How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe

S2 E21 Length 10:17 Premiere Date 03/23/16

Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?

S2 E20 Length 10:48 Premiere Date 03/16/16

What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?

S2 E19 Length 09:56 Premiere Date 03/02/16

Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened

S2 E18 Length 08:54 Premiere Date 02/24/16

LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!

S2 E16 Length 07:29 Premiere Date 02/11/16