The Search for Another Earth

Are we alone in the Universe? Is the Earth unique and the only world in this vast Cosmos where matter has evolved into life and consciousness?

Secrets of the Solar System

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another fascinating documentary from the acclaimed BBC science series Horizon.

In this installment of Horizon, we look at the most recent discoveries in Astronomy and how they are forcing us to rewrite the entire story of our solar system’s origin.

Alien Solar Systems

Up till today, October 21, 2015, astronomers have confirmed the detection of some 1,916 extrasolar planets. Thus indicating that Alien Solar Systems are ubiquitous in the Milky Way Galaxy and throughout the Cosmos.

The Art of Exoplanets

Today on Far Future Horizons we will embark on an artistic odyssey to the recently discovered brave new worlds orbiting distant suns.

Finding the New Earth

We are living in an age of great discovery and exploration. It took humans thousands of years to explore our own planet and centuries to comprehend the neighboring planets of our solar system.

Life on Two Alien Worlds

Today on Far Future Horizons  we will explore two imaginary worlds - Aurelia and the Blue Moon and the strange and wonderful alien lifeforms that inhabit them. 

“Extraterrestrial” is a two-hour science special which brings imaginary aliens and their entire biosphere to life as some of the world’s leading astrobiologists and astronomers report from the Planetary Investigation Lab – where two new planets have been identified.

Aurelia and the Blue Moon may be fictitious worlds but scientists believe that worlds like these could exist and sustain life.

Alien Worlds Revealed

We are living in the great age of planetary discovery. More than a thousand extrasolar planets have been discovered thus far. These discoveries have increased the prospects of humanity one day discovering other life bearing planets. This may indeed be a galaxy awash with life and sentience. 

The Search for Extra-solar Planetary Systems and the Search for Life In the Universe

Kepler Space Telescope

Had Carl Sagan been alive today he would have been extremely thrilled with the fact that new extra solar planetary systems are being discovered almost on a weekly basis. New planets mean more potential abodes for life and perhaps consciousness elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond.

An artist's conception shows the multiple planet system around a star designated HR 8799. The planets were seen directly in infrared wavelengths by the Gemini North telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory.

Today on Far Future Horizons we will be presenting six feature documentaries concerning the search for extra-solar planetary systems and the concomitant search for life and sentience throughout the Cosmos.

Also as our space missions to the outer solar system have revealed there are over a hundred other exotic worlds in our solar system that hold the promise of life. The moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, each a world in its own right. So join us on the most exciting odyssey made possible by the science of our age as we explore a plethora of Alien Worlds and Moons and embark on an Alien Safari.

An artist's concept of the planet HR 8799b (NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon/STScI)

Finally we look at the latest tool to be deployed in the search for worlds very much like our own- NASA’s NASA Kepler mission, which was launched on March 7, 2009.