Join Sam Niell on an awe-inspiring virtual journey as he explores the wonders and terrors that lie beyond our world. Experience the beautiful astonishing and often dangerous phenomena of the universe as state-of-the-art computer graphics take you from the vast clouds where stars are born to the edge of a planet-guzzling black hole.
Star Stuff Learn how every molecule in our bodies originated in the Big Bang, and how life may have been carried to Earth by meteors hurling through space.
Staying Alive Over millennia, massive asteroids have pelted the Earth, the most dramatic causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Are we due for another cataclysm?
Black Holes There may be ten million black holes in our galaxy, sucking everything they touch into their super-dense centers. Could the Earth have a fatal encounter?
Are We Alone? Is there extraterrestrial life in our Universe? For forty years, the scientists at SETI have been recording transmissions from space and searching for signs of intelligence.
New Worlds Our solar system won't last forever. Will future scientists transform a planet like Mars into a new Earth? Or will human beings genetically engineer their own bodies to survive in space?
Boldly Go See the revolutionary forms of transportation that could let us hop between galaxies and use wormholes to cheat the laws of space and time.
