TV Schedule for Science

How the Universe Works NASA's Journey to Mars

NASA plans to send humans to Mars within just 15 years, but to reach this next frontier of space exploration, experts must discover new technology and cutting-edge science that protects astronauts from the Red Planet's deadliest killers.

How the Universe Works Earth's Death Orbit

Earth's journey through the universe is a perilous one; new discoveries reveal that the planet is heading toward a mysterious area of the cosmos.

Savage Builds Forging Excalibur

Adam wants to build his own version of King Arthur's legendary sword: Excalibur; using the iron found in a meteorite, he attempts to make an indestructible weapon.

Savage Builds Mega Food Fight

Adam Savage teams up with TV personality Tory Belleci ("MythBusters") to stage the world's most epic food fight; using the latest science and technology, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into projectiles.

Savage Builds Nitro Explode-aganza

Adam Savage and a demolition expert team up to test one of the most dangerous and explosive substances on the planet, and cutting-edge science and tech will reveal if nitroglycerine really deserves its notorious reputation.

Savage Builds Mad Max Melee

Adam Savage and inventors build a deadly fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of "Mad Max," and using scrapyard materials and wicked-smart engineering, they face off to see whose motorized monster packs the most vicious punch.

Savage Builds Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon

Adam Savage teams up with Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman to build one of Hollywood's deadliest weapons, the ZF1 Multi-Artillery Gun from "The Fifth Element," a weapon so lethal that it features both a rocket launcher and a flamethrower.

Savage Builds Building Iron Man

Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, helps get Adam's titanium Marvel Studios' Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.

Savage Builds Wheel of Death

Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental super-weapon that could have changed the course of World War II; using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.

Alaska Mega Machines Beasts of the Arctic

A ship built to endure tsunami size waves travels on a highway unlike any other in North America; a fleet of machines combats a huge flood in the Arctic Circle; the biggest, most powerful wind turbines in Alaska.

Alaska Mega Machines Gargantuan off the Grid

Alaskan engineers build a massive dam to power an entire town; the world's largest helicopters; Alaska's largest boat lift hauls a 400-ton fishing ship in high winds.

Alaska Mega Machines Bering Sea Giants

Alaska's Coast Guard fights dangerous waters to maintain buoys; machinery finds big rewards 800 feet below Alaska's surface; Alaskans build a steel ferry.

Alaska Mega Machines The Yeti Strikes Back

The Yeti, a machine with 588 sharp teeth, helps keep an airport running; tugboats break the ice in an Alaskan port; soldiers stationed at the coldest army post in the US.

Alaska Mega Machines Warriors in the Last Frontier

A barge carries an entire train along Alaska's high seas; a flying ambulance saves lives at 14,000 feet; 16 missiles stand by to prevent a nuclear disaster.

Alaska Mega Machines Behemoths of the Bush

An airport made from nothing but water and ice; an Alaskan fish factory churns out millions of pounds of seafood a day; hardy vehicles brave the arctic to travel across the tundra.

Alaska Mega Machines The Yeti Strikes Back

The Yeti, a machine with 588 sharp teeth, helps keep an airport running; tugboats break the ice in an Alaskan port; soldiers stationed at the coldest army post in the US.

Alaska Mega Machines Warriors in the Last Frontier

A barge carries an entire train along Alaska's high seas; a flying ambulance saves lives at 14,000 feet; 16 missiles stand by to prevent a nuclear disaster.

Alaska Mega Machines Behemoths of the Bush

An airport made from nothing but water and ice; an Alaskan fish factory churns out millions of pounds of seafood a day; hardy vehicles brave the arctic to travel across the tundra.

Alaska Mega Machines Bering Sea Giants

Alaska's Coast Guard fights dangerous waters to maintain buoys; machinery finds big rewards 800 feet below Alaska's surface; Alaskans build a steel ferry.

Savage Builds Building Iron Man

Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, helps get Adam's titanium Marvel Studios' Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.

Savage Builds Wheel of Death

Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental super-weapon that could have changed the course of World War II; using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.

NASA's Unexplained Files Planet of the Metal Aliens

Experts investigate if a nearby exoplanet could be the home to an alien civilization of strange, metallic monsters, after a new discovery confirms that life can thrive on such a strange world.

NASA's Unexplained Files Red Storm Rising

Two astronauts trapped in the vacuum of space face a horrible death; the first close up images of Pluto show an alien landscape; residents of Houston struggle to explain videos of unidentified flying lights captured above their city at night.

NASA's Unexplained Files Attack of the Thunderballs

Astronauts evacuate when a mystery object hurtles toward the ISS; a NASA secret agent goes undercover to retrieve missing moon rocks; scientists struggle to find answers when they discover a huge void at the edge of the solar system.