8.7/1042 votesLoading...#1 - Black Holes
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/5/2001
Black Holes are the Universe's ultimate monsters, sucking everything into their super-dense centres. There are an estimated ten million of these cosmic killers in our galaxy and once created they never die. What are the chances of Earth having a fatal encounter?
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8.6/1030 votesLoading...#2 - Are We Alone?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2001
Are We Alone? looks at the possibility of extraterrestrial life and visits SETI, a scientific project that for the past 40 years has been searching for information beamed from intelligent life in other solar systems.
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8.5/1032 votesLoading...#3 - Boldy Go
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2001
If humans are ever to reach deep space, there will need to be some revolutionary changes in transport. Boldly Go demonstrates how ion propulsion and solar sails may become effective means to galaxy-hop and considers 'wormholes' as ways to cheat time and space.
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8.2/1031 votesLoading...#4 - Staying Alive
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2001
Sam Neill takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the galaxy to discover how disasters in space regularly threaten our entire world. We go back to the very earliest days of our planet to see why we are lucky life ever got started, and we learn just what will happen if a massive asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth.
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8.1/1042 votesLoading...#5 - Star Stuff
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/22/2001
All life on Earth, including humans, comes from outer space - every single molecule of our bodies originated from an unimaginably large hydrogen cloud created by the Big Bang - and there are even serious claims that life was carried to earth by meteors.
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8.1/1032 votesLoading...#6 - New Worlds
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2001
Even if we avoid destruction by asteroids, we face eventual melt-down, as our Sun is getting progressively hotter. New Worlds looks at where we could go to escape this fate and talks to scientists who are already exploring how we could turn a planet like Mars into a Noah's ark for the earth's animal and plant life. It may even be that humans have to change themselves genetically to survive.
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The Best Episodes of Space
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Sam Neill takes an amazing journey across the Universe and finds beauty and danger on the way.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"Black Holes" is the best rated episode of "Space". It scored 8.7/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/5/2001. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Are We Alone?".