Brian Cox, Ph.D., is a leading particle physicist and professor at the University of Manchester, as well as a researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. A Royal Society University Research Fellow, Professor Cox was appointed officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2010. He is the author of Why Does E=MC2? and is well known as presenter of the television series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe.

Andrew Cohen is head of the BBC Science Unit and the executive producer of the BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System. He began his career in science broadcasting fifteen years ago and has produced a wide range of science documentaries including Tomorrow's World and Horizon. From 2005-10 he was series editor of the flagship BBC science series Horizon. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination and scientific exploration for thousands of years. The wonders of the Universe might seem alien to us and impossible to understand, but away from the telescopes, the labs and the white coats, Professor Brian Cox uses the evidence found in the natural world around us to explain its simple truths. Travelling to the North Pole, Professor Cox demonstrates how spinning worlds create electrical currents and magnetism; he looks at the South Pacific Ocean to explain how the Universe communicates and moves in waves; he shows us how the water of the Angel Falls waterfall in Venezuela behaves exactly like the light does around a black hole. The same laws of light, gravity, time, matter and energy that govern us here on Earth are the same as those applied in the Universe. Using 3D CGI imagery, his expert knowledge and his infectious enthusiasm, Professor Cox shows us that if we can understand the impact of these governing laws on Earth it will bring us a step closer to an understanding of our Universe.