Focusing on faraway landscapes that are bursting with fire and ice; Professor Cox goes on a journey across the solar system for a look at volcanic eruptions so vast they reach into space; learning why these violent explosions hold the keys to life.

Wandering in the spaces between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds exist without any light at all; peeking inside hidden realms that stretch halfway to the nearest star and find out what lies outside the reaches of the most powerful telescopes.

Exploring powerful lightning, mountains with strange, metallic frosts and monsoon rains on a moon that is a billion miles away from Earth.

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system's frozen worlds; he meets the dwarf planet where mountains of solid ice float across the surface, the black and white moon painted with frost and a world illuminated by a strange form of ice.

Brian journeys across the solar system and explores its weirdest worlds, the misfits and oddballs; he discovers the forces that sculpted bizarre features and strange phenomena.