How the Universe Works: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of How the Universe Works Season 8.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Journey to a Black Hole
Mar 24, 2021 · 84 min
Journey to the heart of the M87 supermassive black hole, the first and only black hole ever photographed, and explore the mystery of how it grew so large, what lies inside, and how
Mission to a Comet
Mar 31, 2021 · 42 min
Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.
Secrets Of The Sun
Apr 7, 2021 · 42 min
A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth's star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun's atmosphere, what it finds challenges ever
Aliens of the Microcosmos
Apr 14, 2021 · 42 min
New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.
Curse of the White Dwarf
Apr 21, 2021 · 42 min
Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.
War of the Galaxies
Apr 28, 2021 · 42 min
Galaxies are locked in continual combat across the universe, and our own Milky Way will face its biggest opponent ever, the Andromeda Galaxy, in a titanic and deadly struggle that
The Next Supernova
May 5, 2021 · 42 min
The galaxy is full of stars ready to explode into supernovas, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth; it's an event that hasn't occurred in 400 years, an
Secret Lives Of Neutrinos
May 12, 2021 · 42 min
Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the universe, and they power some of the most explosive events in the cosmos; new discoveries reveal how these ghosts pass through ob
Birth of Monster Black Holes
May 19, 2021 · 42 min
New discoveries reveal an astonishing supermassive black hole that was born during the earliest days of the cosmos, and finding out how this giant grew so large so quickly may help
Gravitational Waves Revealed
May 26, 2021 · 42 min
Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries.
Mystery of Alien Worlds
Jun 2, 2021 · 42 min
New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.