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Big Black Holes and Little Red Dots |
10th Aug 2026 |
4 days ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 5 - "Big Black Holes and Little Red Dots"
Professor Brian Cox joins the team to explore the mind-bending mysteries of black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope's most exciting new observations.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#4 |
The Aliens Next Door? |
13th Jul 2026 |
1 month ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 4 - "The Aliens Next Door?"
Could alien life exist closer than we think - perhaps right next door? A paper published in 2025 suggested that strange markings discovered on Mars could provide some of the strongest evidence yet that life once existed on the Red Planet. The Sky at Night team travels across Great Britain to investigate this and other evidence that suggests the search for life beyond Earth may lie within our own solar system.Off the east coast of Scotland, Chris Lintott meets Dr Claire Cousins, who explains the fundamental conditions needed for life. She then turns to the ground beneath their feet, where the red rocks along the North Berwick coastline are marked with patterns similar to those seen on Mars. To find out more about how these markings could have formed here - and possibly on Mars - Chris heads to Edinburgh, where Dr Sean McMahon is investigating whether similar patterns can be recreated in the lab.Meanwhile, in Cardiff, George Dransfield speaks with Professor Jane Greaves, whose paper on the detection of phosphine in the clouds of Venus six years ago caused a stir. Did the phosphine truly exist, and could it point to life? Ongoing research is continuing to build the case for unusual chemistry - and possibly life - on our closest planetary neighbour.Further out in the solar system, the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn offer another compelling possibility. Maggie Aderin-Pocock is in Milton Keynes to meet Dr Mark Fox-Powell, whose team are recreating these freezing conditions in the lab to understand how chemistry behaves there. Their work is helping identify what future missions to these icy worlds should look for as potential signs of life - and has even led to the discovery of a new mineral that can only form in such extreme environments.Across Mars, Venus and the icy moons, one theme emerges: life may not require Earth-like conditions in the way we once assumed. Instead, it could thrive in unexpected environments.Finally, Pete Lawrence rounds off the programme with a tour of the summer night sky, and we are reminded of how vast our galaxy is and how small our place within it really is.So, are we alone? The search continues - right here on our cosmic doorstep.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#3 |
Space Weather: The Perfect Storm |
8th Jun 2026 |
2 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 3 - "Space Weather: The Perfect Storm"
The team uncover a danger that humanity is only just waking up to – space weather. They meet the dedicated people working to keep us safe from the very worst that the sun can throw at us.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#2 |
Jodrell Bank: Tuning Into the Universe |
11th May 2026 |
3 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 2 - "Jodrell Bank: Tuning Into the Universe"
The team explore the remarkable story of Jodrell Bank Observatory and its towering Lovell Telescope, which scientists have used to listen to the cosmos for almost 70 years.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#1 |
Destination Moon |
13th Apr 2026 |
4 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 1 - "Destination Moon"
The team explore Nasa's Artemis II mission, the first crewed journey towards the moon since 1972. They also look into robotic landers and new scientific clues from lunar samples.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#8 |
Space Mysteries: The Sky at Night Meets ... |
10th Nov 2025 |
9 months ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 8 - "Space Mysteries: The Sky at Night Meets Curious Cases"
In a spectacular season finale, the team are joined by Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain in front of a live studio audience to answer viewers' burning queries about space.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#7 |
Brits in Space |
13th Oct 2025 |
10 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 7 - "Brits in Space"
The team delve into the world of astronaut training, discovering what it takes to become a European Space Agency astronaut. With special guest Helen Sharman.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#6 |
The Expanding Universe |
8th Sep 2025 |
11 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 6 - "The Expanding Universe"
The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy that our universe is expanding, and the new questions it raises about how the cosmos works. Maggie Aderin-Pocock investigates a different cosmic speedometer.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#9 |
The Multiverse of Mystery |
14th Nov 2022 |
3 years ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 9 - "The Multiverse of Mystery"
The Sky at Night in the Multiverse of Mystery is a magical journey into the far-flung ideas at the very edge of scientific knowledge, exploring the concepts that today seem like science fiction but may one day become science fact.Delving into the archive at the Royal Society, we look at the dreamers who first considered the possibility of travelling to the moon and black holes long before they could be proven to exist. From there, the team explore some ideas and theories that today could be dismissed as fanciful thinking.They imagine a world where a popular TV programme asks two scientists, Hiranya Peiris and Emma Chapman, to meet, have dinner and talk science, all under the watchful eye of maître d' Pete Lawrence.Meanwhile, Maggie Aderin-Pocock sails off to explore the realities of interstellar travel and astrobiologist Doug Vakoch explains some of the challenges of communicating with aliens. Astrophysicist Becky Smethurst is lost in a world of black and white holes, and Chris Lintott, as you have never seen him before, argues the case for a multiverse.Along with animation from the BBC Ideas team, this edition of The Sky at Night shines a very different light on the world of astrophysics.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#10 |
Review of the Year |
12th Dec 2021 |
4 years ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 10 - "Review of the Year"
Chris and Maggie look back at some of the stories they have covered in 2021 in the Sky at Night's big review of the year.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#11 |
Review of the Year |
8th Dec 2019 |
6 years ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 11 - "Review of the Year"
Looking back on the major stories of the year - from the New Horizons mission to the most distant world we have ever visited to the release of the first-ever picture of a black hole. The team relive the highlights and uncover the latest developments.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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