The BEST episodes of Solar System (2024)

Every episode of Solar System (2024) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Solar System (2024)!

Diamond rain, supersized volcanoes, exploding oceans - and we have a front row seat for it all. Professor Brian Cox reveals the strange worlds visible to us as never before.

Last Updated: 1/25/2025Network: BBC TwoStatus: Ended
Strange Worlds
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7.97
30 votes

#1 - Strange Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s misfits and oddballs, and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.

Directors: Ben Wilson
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Dark Worlds
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7.86
42 votes

#2 - Dark Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.

Directors: Laura Mulholland
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Volcano Worlds
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7.82
60 votes

#3 - Volcano Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2024

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions so violent they reach into space.

Directors: Ben Wilson
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Storm Worlds
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7.81
32 votes

#4 - Storm Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s wildest weather, encountering powerful lightning, strange metallic frosts and monsoon rains on a moon a billion kilometres from Earth.

Directors: Fleur Bone
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Ice Worlds
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7.71
28 votes

#5 - Ice Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2024

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.

Directors: Nat Sharman
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