Episode 10 - Home
46minAfter 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
45minAstronaut 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
46minEver 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
44minWill 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
45minIt’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
46minDr 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
44minThough 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
46minThe 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
45minWill 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
46minWill 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.