''How the Universe Works'' is a documentary science television series that originally aired on the
Discovery Channel in 2010. All but the second and eighth seasons were narrated by
Mike Rowe
Michael Gregory Rowe (born March 18, 1962) is an American television host and narrator. He is known for his work on the Discovery Channel series ''Dirty Jobs'' and the series '' Somebody's Gotta Do It'' originally developed for CNN. He hosted a ...
. The second and eighth seasons, as well as episodes of the fifth and sixth seasons, were narrated by
Erik Todd Dellums. The first season, broadcast from April 25 to May 24, 2010, was released on
Blu-ray
The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of stori ...
on February 28, 2012. Since its second season, consisting of eight episodes broadcast between July 11 and August 29, 2012, the show has aired on the
Science Channel. The third season aired between July 9 and September 3, 2014. The fourth season premiered on July 14, 2015, as part of the Science Channel's "Space Week," in honor of ''
New Horizons''
' flyby of
Pluto
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest k ...
that day; the season ran through September 1, 2015. The show's fifth season aired from November 22, 2016, through February 7, 2017. The sixth season premiered on January 9, 2018 and ran through March 13, 2018. The seventh season premiered on January 8, 2019. On December 30, 2019, it was announced that the eighth season would premiere on January 2, 2020. The ninth season premiered on March 24, 2021.
The tenth season premiered on March 6, 2022.
Episode list
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2015)
Season 5 (2016–17)
Season 6 (2018)
Season 7 (2019)
Season 8 (2020)
Season 9 (2021)
Season 10 (2022)
According to Discovery Tech Support, the show is on hiatus and the remaining 4 episodes of season 10 will begin airing on July 3, 2022.
See also
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Alien Planet
''Alien Planet'' is a 2005 docufiction TV special created for the Discovery Channel. Based on the 1990 book '' Expedition'' by the artist and writer Wayne Barlowe, ''Alien Planet'' explores the imagined extraterrestrial life of the fictional plane ...
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''
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Extreme Universe''
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Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking''
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Killers of the Cosmos''
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Mars: The Secret Science''
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The Planets and Beyond''
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Space's Deepest Secrets
''Space's Deepest Secrets'' is a documentary science television series narrated by David O'Brien. Aired by the Science Channel, it premiered on April 26, 2016.
According to the Science Channel, "''Space's Deepest Secrets'' shares the stories of ...
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Strip the Cosmos
''Strip the Cosmos'' is a documentary science television series narrated by Eric Loren. Aired by the Science Channel, it premiered on November 12, 2014.
Content
''Strip The Cosmos'' builds upon a concept introduced in an earlier show, '' Strip th ...
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Through the Wormhole''
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The Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. Accor ...
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References
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