Discussing the mysteries surrounding the formation of the Rocky Mountains, one of the world's largest mountain ranges, stretching across 4800 kilometres from the northern tip of British Columbia to the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

The discussion focuses on the top theories regarding the origin of life.

Scientists have been exploring Pluto since its discovery in 1930.

How the earth's atmosphere came to be; the one man to have braved the atmosphere's upper reaches and survived.

Ice may have entombed Earth for hundreds of millions of years, spawning the complex animals that evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed.

Tornados are one of the most destructive forces of the planets with winds at 300 miles an hour. They can destroy buildings and hurl cars hundreds of feet through the air. Every year tornadoes decimate communities around the world killing hundreds of people. Naked Science deconstructs a tornado to learn how they form and how they develop such ferocious winds.