From our solar system to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in The Universe.

Season 6 of the pioneering series, The Universe, takes viewers further than ever, to the extreme edges of our solar system where chaos and catastrophe bring epic drama to the planets including some of the most horrifying days on Earth.

Through stunning CGI, witness the birth pangs of the solar system, shocked into existence by a nearby supernova and enduring over 700 million years of brutal bombardment by deadly asteroids; colossal cataclysms that shaped the planets and transformed their climates forever; and startling new scientific discoveries revealing a hellish history of continuous devastation on Earth.

Travel to the system's very fringes to explore the possibility that the Sun has an evil twin, a monstrous star known as Nemesis, suspected of causing every mass-extinction in Earth's history.