Season 1

cameras where they’ve never been before, having filmed in 45 countries, on six continents and from outer space on the ISS. ONE STRANGE ROCK guides viewers through our vulnerable, tiny speck of a planet among the vast, harsh cosmic arena, revealing the magical twists of fate that have allowed life to emerge, survive and thrive only on Earth.

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Episode 10 - Home

46min

After 665 days in space, NASAs most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, returned to Earth in a position to answer the question “just how strange and unique is our planet?”

Episode 9 - Escape

45min

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has left the planet three times and believes our only chance of survival, is to leave permanently. Now he and his fellow astronauts try to answer one of our biggest questions - Could we ever survive leaving Earth?

Episode 8 - Terraform

46min

Ever since life emerged, microbes, plants and animals have sculpted the planet in the strangest of ways. But as Will Smith along with current and former astronauts explain, life doesn’t just create. It also destroys.

Episode 7 - Awakening

44min

Will Smith along with current and former astronauts question why, of all the life on earth, we are the only beings that evolved enough to leave this planet?

Episode 6 - Survival

45min

It’s not enough for Earth to be habitable; it also has to be lethal for life to thrive. As Will Smith reveals, death is hardwired into everything but life has a biological superpower trade off - sex.

Episode 5 - Alien

46min

Dr Mae Jemison and her fellow astronauts explore how life on Earth evolved from single cell bacteria to now and what it means for our chances of finding life elsewhere in the universe.

Episode 4 - التكوين

44min

Though the building blocks of life are common across the universe, life is rare. Will Smith and former astronauts explore what it is about our planet that sets it apart.

Episode 3 - Shield

46min

The David and Goliath story of Earth’s relationship with its greatest threat, our seemingly benign Sun, is told by Will Smith and some of the only people to have ever seen our planet from space.

Episode 2 - Storm

45min

Will Smith and some of the privileged few who have seen Earth from space, explain how our planet has been shaped by the same cosmic storms that could possibly have destroyed it.

Episode 1 - Gasp

46min

Will Smith along with astronauts Chris Hadfield, Nicole Stott and Mae Jemison, some of the privileged few who have looked down on Earth from space, tell the unbelievable story of how Earth creates and regulates its oxygen rich atmosphere.