Presented by Professor Brian Cox, The Planets is a sumptuous look at the beauty and the grandeur of eight planets, told across five episodes, beginning with A Moment In The Sun.
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Spectacular series explores our Solar System
Mercury Transit gets its own show on OU campus
Members of the public are being invited to join scientists on the OU’s campus in Milton Keynes to experience a once-in-a-generation celestial event. The Transit of…
Saturn’s moons may be younger than the dinosaurs – so could life really exist there?
Saturn is home to more than 60 moons – from the massive Titan and the crater-riddled Phoebe, to Enceladus with its geysers. Enceladus in particular has…
OU research student names ridge on planet Mercury
PhD student mapping features on the planet’s surface Large ridge is as long as distance from London to Liverpool In May you can observe Mercury yourself…
NASA: streaks of salt on Mars mean flowing water, and raise new hopes of finding life
Salty streaks have been discovered on Mars, which could be a sign that salt water seeps to the surface in the summers. Scientists have previously observed…