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Adam Savage and team test if old batteries can set off a dangerous chain reaction and get to the bottom of a age-old idiom with one of the world's best archers and a diabolically difficult trick-shot.

Adam Savage and the team find out what happens when the destructive power of chain reactions is let loose and investigate how to solve the ultimate Jenga challenge

This is the story of how stars were made by the universe and how they engineered everything else in that universe. They spawned further generations of stars, then planets, and eventually the building blocks of life.

Is our solar system unique? Since the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star, some 280 alien solar systems have been identified. By looking at systems far beyond our own, we can understand how remarkable our universe is.

There are 8 planets in our solar system, but there could be a hundred billion planets in our galaxy alone. This show follows the journey of planets as they grow from grains of dust to the magnificently diverse worlds we see today.

Moons come in every possible shape and size. Home to incredible natural phenomena like gigantic geysers and colossal volcanoes, moons also offer perhaps the best chance of finding alien life in the universe.

Stars are not eternal; they die in unimaginably large explosions called supernovas. Second only to the Big Bang, these explosions are where creation and destruction meet. We have just begun to understand these wonders in our sky.

Scientists have discovered a mysterious ninth planet on the very edge of our solar system. Ten times the size of Earth, this strange world could have moons with extraterrestrial life.

Recent discoveries could explain the mystery of how supermassive black holes grow so big. Neither dark matter nor cannibalism can fully explain these monsters, but the latest science might finally provide an answer.

The first close-up images of Pluto revealed unimaginable secrets of the mysterious frozen world. Now, scientists investigate the possibility of a warm ocean of sub-surface water on Pluto, and whether this it could harbor life.

The universe is home to real-life Death Stars that could destroy planet Earth. Science reveals the terrifying secrets of NASA's 6 deadliest: vampire stars, supernovas that can vaporize a planet, and unpredictable stars gone rogue.

The universe is a dangerous place, and we explore the deadliest spots in the cosmos. Between earth and the edge of the universe, there are a million ways to die, and our crash test dummy is on a mission to reveal the worst.

Life once existed on Mars, but devastating mass extinctions have now made life nearly impossible. The latest science shows how Martian life keeps bouncing back as it transforms from a watery world like Earth into a desert planet.

Discoveries have revealed countless worlds much stranger than Earth. Some of these worlds don't have stars, others are made out of diamonds. Will we ever find a planet like Earth, or are these distant worlds stranger than fiction?

Planets that orbit two suns instead of one might be deadly hell worlds, but new discoveries reveal that sci-fi star systems with binary stars might be optimal places for alien life.

Our solar system hides a dark and violent past, and new discoveries reveal that Earth and the planets were formed from the destruction of strange alien worlds that came before us.