How the Universe Works
How the Universe Works is a documentary science television series that originally aired on the Discovery Channel in 2010. The first, and fourth to eighth seasons were narrated by Mike Rowe[1] and the second and third by Erik Todd Dellums.[2] The first season, broadcast from April 25 to May 24, 2010, was released on Blu-ray on February 28, 2012.[3] Since its second season, consisting of eight episodes broadcast between July 11 and August 29, 2012, the show has aired on The Science Channel.[4] The third season aired between July 9 and September 3, 2014.[5] The fourth season premiered on July 14, 2015, as part of the Science Channel's "Space Week," in honor of New Horizons′ flyby of Pluto that day; the season ran through September 1, 2015. The show′s fifth season aired from November 22, 2016, through February 7, 2017. The sixth season premiered on January 9, 2018 and ran through March 13, 2018. The seventh season premiered on January 8, 2019. On December 30, 2019, it was announced that the eighth season will premiere on January 2, 2020.[6]
| How the Universe Works | |
|---|---|
 Blu-ray disc cover | |
| Also known as | HtUW |
| Genre | Documentary series |
| Narrated by | Mike Rowe (Seasons 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) Erik Todd Dellums (Seasons 2, 5 and 6) |
| Composer(s) | Richard Blair-Oliphant |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 71 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Hannah James / Stuart Carter |
| Producer(s) | Stephen Marsh |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Discovery Channel (2010) Science Channel (2012-present) |
| Original release | April 25, 2010 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Episode list
Season 1 (2010)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Big Bang" | Louise V. Say | April 25, 2010 |
| 2 | "Black Holes" | Peter Chinn | May 2, 2010 |
| 3 | "Galaxies" | Louise V. Say | May 10, 2010 |
| 4 | "Stars" | Peter Chinn | May 10, 2010 |
| 5 | "Supernovas" | Shaun Trevisick | May 17, 2010 |
| 6 | "Planets" | Lorne Townend | May 17, 2010 |
| 7 | "Solar Systems" | Lorne Townend | May 24, 2010 |
| 8 | "Moons" | Shaun Trevisick | May 24, 2010 |
Season 2 (2012)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life" | Alex Hearle | July 11, 2012 |
| 2 | "Megastorms - The Winds of Creation" | Alex Hearle | July 18, 2012 |
| 3 | "Exoplanets - Planets from Hell" | Kate Dart | July 25, 2012 |
| 4 | "Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms" | Kate Dart | August 1, 2012 |
| 5 | "Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation" | Adam Warner | August 8, 2012 |
| 6 | "Comets - Frozen Wanderers" | Adam Warner | August 15, 2012 |
| 7 | "Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were" | George Harris | August 22, 2012 |
| 8 | "Birth of the Earth" | George Harris | August 29, 2012 |
Season 3 (2014)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Journey from the Center of the Sun" | FTC | July 9, 2014 |
| 2 | "The End of the Universe" | Mark Bridge | July 16, 2014 |
| 3 | "Jupiter: Destroyer or Savior?" | Mark Bridge | July 23, 2014 |
| 4 | "First Second of the Big Bang" | Mark Bridge | July 30, 2014 |
| 5 | "Is Saturn Alive?" | Mark Bridge | August 6, 2014 |
| 6 | "Weapons of Mass Extinction" | Mark Bridge | August 13, 2014 |
| 7 | "Did a Black Hole Build the Milky Way?" | Mark Bridge | August 20, 2014 |
| 8 | "Our Voyage to the Stars" | Mark Bridge | August 27, 2014 |
| 9 | "The Search for a Second Earth" | Mark Bridge | September 3, 2014 |
Season 4 (2015)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "How the Universe Built Your Car" | Mark Bridge | July 14, 2015 |
| 2 | "Earth, Venus's Evil Twin" | Mark Bridge | July 21, 2015 |
| 3 | "Monster Black Hole" | Mark Bridge | July 28, 2015 |
| 4 | "Edge of the Solar System" | Mark Bridge | August 4, 2015 |
| 5 | "Dawn of Life" | Mark Bridge | August 11, 2015 |
| 6 | "Secret History of the Moon" | Mark Bridge | August 18, 2015 |
| 7 | "The First Oceans" | Mark Bridge | August 25, 2015 |
| 8 | "Forces of Mass Construction" | Mark Bridge | September 1, 2015 |
Season 5 (2016–17)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Most Amazing Discoveries" | TBA | November 22, 2016 |
| 2 | "Mystery of Planet 9" | TBA | November 29, 2016 |
| 3 | "Black Holes: The Secret Origin" | TBA | December 6, 2016 |
| 4 | "Secret History of Pluto" | TBA | January 3, 2017 |
| 5 | "Stars That Kill" | TBA | January 10, 2017 |
| 6 | "The Universe's Deadliest" | TBA | January 17, 2017 |
| 7 | "Life and Death on the Red Planet" | TBA | January 24, 2017 |
| 8 | "The Dark Matter Enigma" | TBA | January 31, 2017 |
| 9 | "Strangest Alien Worlds" | TBA | February 7, 2017 |
Season 6 (2018)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date | US Viewers (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Are Black Holes Real?" | TBA | January 9, 2018 | 375[7] | |
| New discoveries are challenging everything we know about black holes -- astronomers are beginning to question if they even exist. The latest science tries to explain how they work & what they look like, despite the fact we've never actually seen one. | |||||
| 2 | "Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries" | TBA | January 16, 2018 | 385[8] | |
| Planets that orbit two suns instead of one might be deadly hell worlds, but new discoveries reveal that sci-fi star systems with binary stars might be optimal places for alien life. | |||||
| 3 | "Dark History of the Solar System" | TBA | January 23, 2018 | 347[9] | |
| New discoveries reveal that Earth and the planets were formed from the destruction of strange alien worlds. | |||||
| 4 | "Death of the Milky Way" | TBA | January 30, 2018 | 341[10] | |
| The Milky Way is dying, and experts are investigating what's killing it. | |||||
| 5 | "Uranus & Neptune: Rise of the Ice Giants" | Mark Bridge | February 6, 2018 | 378[11] | |
| Uranus and Neptune are mysterious, icy worlds at the edge of our solar system, and new discoveries reveal that these strange planets might have helped start life on Earth. | |||||
| 6 | "Secret History of Mercury" | TBA | February 13, 2018 | 346[12] | |
| Mercury is a deadly world, facing attacks from the Sun, comets, and other planets, and even though it's the smallest planet in our solar system, it has a dangerous secret that might one day threaten life on Earth. | |||||
| 7 | "The Quasar Enigma" | TBA | February 20, 2018 | 371[13] | |
| Quasars are the brightest and most powerful objects in our universe, and though they have shaped the cosmos, they might ultimately destroy everything that exists. | |||||
| 8 | "Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets" | TBA | February 27, 2018 | 302[14] | |
| Our solar system is home to hundreds of strange, tiny worlds called dwarf planets, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of these mysterious places. | |||||
| 9 | "War on Asteroids" | TBA | March 6, 2018 | 333[15] | |
| Scientists are using cutting-edge technology to stop an asteroid apocalypse, and for the first time, mankind is closer than ever to keeping Earth safe from these killer space rocks. | |||||
| 10 | "Mystery of Spacetime" | TBA | March 13, 2018 | 395[16] | |
| Spacetime is the secret structure that controls our universe, and this strange four-dimensional substance controls time, light, and energy. It will also determine how our universe will end. | |||||
Season 7 (2019)
| Episode # | Title | Directed by | Original air date | US Viewers (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Nightmares of Neutron Stars" | TBA | January 8, 2019 | 394[17] | |
| Neutron stars are strange and violent phenomena that defy the laws of physics, and new discoveries reveal that these bizarre nightmares are far more deadly than we ever thought, with the power to destroy planets and even other stars. | |||||
| 2 | "When Supernovas Strike" | TBA | January 15, 2019 | 252[18] | |
| Supernovas are the violent death of giant stars, and reveal that these cataclysmic events created the elements that are essential to all life in the universe. | |||||
| 3 | "The Interstellar Mysteries" | TBA | January 22, 2019 | N/A | |
| Interstellar space is the space between the universe's stars and new discoveries reveal that it's not empty and unremarkable as previously thought, but filled with weird objects and strange phenomena that might hold the darkest secrets of our cosmos. | |||||
| 4 | "How Black Holes Made Us" | TBA | January 29, 2019 | 326[19] | |
| Black holes aren't the violent monsters we think they are, and new discoveries reveal that they might have been essential to creating stars, giving light, and building the universe itself. | |||||
| 5 | "Secret Worlds of Nebulas" | TBA | February 5, 2019 | N/A | |
| Nebulas are the strange structures of cosmic gas and dust where stars are born and die, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of these mysterious objects. | |||||
| 6 | "Did the Big Bang Really Happen?" | TBA | February 12, 2019 | 270[20] | |
| New discoveries are causing astronomers to question if the Big Bang really happened, and using the latest science, they investigate if it wasn't just the start of our universe but many mysterious multiverses. | |||||
| 7 | "Battle of the Dark Universe" | TBA | February 19, 2019 | 222[21] | |
| Dark matter and dark energy are locked in an epic battle for control of the cosmos, and the winner will determine the fate of the universe. New discoveries might reveal which force will emerge victorious. | |||||
| 8 | "Hunt for Alien Life" | TBA | February 26, 2019 | 246[22] | |
| The latest discoveries suggest that we might be on the verge of discovering life beyond our planet. Scientists are investigating if Earth's life began elsewhere in the universe and whether we need to evolve to know for sure. | |||||
| 9 | "Finding the New Earth" | TBA | March 5, 2019 | 264[23] | |
| New discoveries have revealed thousands of exoplanets beyond our solar system. Some resemble Earth enough that one could be a new home for humanity. Even with cutting-edge technology, finding the perfect one is the scientific challenge of the age. | |||||
| 10 | "Cassini's Final Secrets" | TBA | March 12, 2019 | 303[24] | |
| For twenty years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed the strange secrets of Saturn until it vaporized in Saturn's atmosphere. But today its legacy lives on, as newly analyzed data from the probe helps scientists make additional discoveries. | |||||
Season 8 (2020)
| Episode # | Title | Original air date | US Viewers (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Asteroid Apocalypse — The New Threat" | January 2, 2020 | 290[25] | |
| If a massive asteroid collides with Earth, it could end life on our planet as we know it. New discoveries reveal just how close we are to the apocalypse and what it would take for the world's leading space agencies to stop it. | ||||
| 2 | "NASA's Journey to Mars" | January 9, 2020 | 314[26] | |
| NASA is on a mission to send humans to Mars within just 15 years, but to reach this next frontier of space exploration, experts must discover new technology and cutting-edge science that protects astronauts from the red planet's deadliest killers. | ||||
| 3 | "Hunt for Alien Evidence" | January 16, 2020 | 299[27] | |
| The discovery of extraterrestrial life might face an impossible challenge—the physics of the universe itself. With cutting-edge technology, experts might be on the verge of a groundbreaking find—and the evidence could already be in hand. | ||||
| 4 | "Death of the Last Stars" | January 23, 2020 | 315[28] | |
| Our universe's stars are dying off faster than new ones are born, and using the latest technology, experts investigate the secrets of the last stars of the cosmos and what this stellar apocalypse means for life on Earth. | ||||
| 5 | "Secrets Of Time Travel" | January 30, 2020 | 276[29] | |
| Time travel might be more possible than we ever imagined, and today, cutting-edge technology and the latest research into black holes and wormholes is helping experts get steps closer to discovering how to travel through time. | ||||
| 6 | "When NASA met Jupiter" | February 6, 2020 | 283[30] | |
| NASA's Juno spacecraft is part of a cutting-edge mission to explore the mysteries of Jupiter. As this mighty probe is pummeled with deadly radiation, it gathers new data that could change everything we know about the solar system's biggest planet. | ||||
| 7 | "Edge of the Universe" | February 13, 2020 | 296[31] | |
| We don't yet know where the edge of the universe is or what happens there; but thanks to cutting-edge technology and new discoveries, experts might finally reveal the secrets of the phenomena that can be found in deepest reaches of the cosmos. | ||||
| 8 | "Monsters of the Milky way" | February 20, 2020 | 281[32] | |
| The center of the Milky Way is home to strange and deadly phenomena that we don't yet understand, but using the latest science, experts are revealing how the supermassive black hole our galaxy's core shapes life on Earth. | ||||
| 9 | "Earth's Death Orbit" | February 27, 2020 | 314[33] | |
| Earth's journey through the universe is a perilous one, and new discoveries reveal that our planet is heading toward a mysterious area of the cosmos that could eject us out of the Milky Way and into oblivion. | ||||
See also
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