Science Channel is headed back to space. This week, the network announced The Planets and Beyond will return for a second season in March.
Hosted by astronaut Mike Massimino, the docuseries “takes an in-depth look at everything from Neptune & Uranus, to alien planets and the Sun.”
Season two of The Planets and Beyond premieres on Science Channel on March 20th at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Read more details below:
(New York) – Former NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino is back to serve as our tour guide through the universe in the new season of THE PLANETS AND BEYOND, debuting Tuesday, March 20th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Science Channel. Each of the eight episodes in the second season takes an in-depth look at everything from Neptune & Uranus, to alien planets and the Sun. Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions to repair the Hubble Telescope, provides a perspective on the cosmos that only an elite few can match.
The premiere episode, BIRTH OF THE EARTH, is the incredible story of the origins of our world, which reveals that planets like Earth in other parts of the universe must be abundant. Our planet was formed by a series of cataclysms, from the most powerful blast in the universe to a planetary collision that could have destroyed it. Yet without these events, Earth would not exist, nor would we. Could the same extraordinary chain of events have created other earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe, which are inhabited by creatures like us?
Also explored this season are Uranus, Neptune and Mercury as well as alien planets, which scientists have for the last twenty years been discovering at an amazing rate. The Milky Way, which is our home galaxy that is made up of 200 billion stars, one of which is the Sun, will also be looked at.
An astronaut, the first person to tweet from space, and now a New York Times bestselling author, Mike Massimino grew up a working-class kid whose seemingly unreachable dream of becoming an astronaut and going to space was realized in an unlikely journey that was driven by determination and commitment and realized with hard work and humor. After two missions to the Hubble Space Telescope and four space walks to make critical repairs to the telescope, Mike is now the Senior Space Advisor to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, a Columbia University professor, an author, a media personality, and an in-demand speaker for audiences seeking a unique perspective on teamwork, innovation, and leadership from a down-to-earth spaceman.”
What do you think? Have you seen The Planets and Beyond? Will you watch season two?
I would like to contact the scientist who theorized Jupiter was dragged out into Kuiper belt or Oort Cloud to pick up the moons. Show aired on Directv March 11, 2019
Love the show but what does Mike Massimino have to do with it? He is an astronaut not a scientist. You can tell he knows nothing about what hes talking about by the way he reads his lines in a dead pan way. Get rid of Massimino..
Massimino is just window dressing, but they should let him narrate the show. I keep hoping Erik Dellums will get a coach, find his real voice and start practicing his script He has. A habit of reading. his script. like this. All he would need do is LISTEN to his narration, and learn to “make the copy his” by using the script to cue his normal, every day manner of speaking extemporaneously. Seriously, he has a pleasant-enough voice but he screws it up by growling with his false chords to try and make his voice deep. Won’t work! I hope… Read more »
I have very much enjoyed these episodes. However, what happened to the narrator. He is talking at 75% of the speed lately then he used to. It is excruciating to listening to. Everybody else on the programs speaks at normal cadences then the narrator starts again and it feels like somebody put the breaks on. It’s almost at the point where I don’t want to watch anymore.
Who is the narrator of the planets and beyond?
Sounds like Shepherd Book (Ron Glass) from Firefly but he passed in 2016
I believe his name (the narrator) is Erik Dellums.
Omg! The show is awesome! But the boring guy that is narrating has got to go! He does other shows on the science channel. But sometimes I can’t watch it cause he’s so monotone!
Interesting that you would say that. Earlier I tried viewing a 2-hour show but got irritated by narrator Dellums and tuned out. The poor man is one of those “false chord” speakers (google it.) As a voice and narrating coach of some 25 years, I can tell Dellums fails to study his copy. He reads it cold. Bad choice. He needs to get in touch with his normal voice. He needs a conversational approach instead of trying for a “dramatic” read. Singing would help him find his real vocal chords, and STUDYING his script would result in a more natural… Read more »
Hi. Any chance The Planets and Beyond is or will be available for purchase on DVD? I love the show, but I get up very early for work so I’ve missed the majority of them. I’ve looked online, but no luck finding a DVD.
I love this series! I hope we have many more seasons to come!