Destiny

S1, E8: Our star, the Sun, created our Solar System and in a phase of cosmic cannibalism will engulf and destroy it. But just as the birth was a long and fascinating process, our Solar System will see many changes before the light of our star goes out again. Destiny explores the evolution of the planets over the next four billion years, as Mars and Titan warm up, Mercury and Venus go into meltdown, and the gas around the Giants slowly blows away. Although the final chapter for the Solar System, this is not the end of the planets. There are now more planets known outside the Solar System than within it. And if there are planets out there, then why not life? NASA and ESA have set their machinery running at full power to design instruments that can peer into the atmospheres of these new planets eagerly hunting the slightest sign of life.