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Almost every culture on Earth tells the story of an ancient flood – details vary but the basic plot is the same - An angry God wipes out an unrepentant population.

Superflares are amongst the greatest events of the Universe. These magnetic explosions can release energy millions of times greater than atomic bombs. They produce streams of highly energetic particles which can be highly destructive to life.

The sky above is studded with stars and countless galaxies. In them, we can read not only our origin, but also our final destination. Technology is on the brink of taking us to places we have only dreamed of.

The moon is our closest celestial companion. It lights our night sky and gently tugs at our shores. Few have walked on her surface, but her allure remains strong.

They orbit between our planet and our star. Mercury and Venus make up half of our terrestrial planets, but we still know very little about them. As we take a closer look at our companions, we find more questions than answers.

Mars has fired our imagination for thousands of years. The tantilizing possibility of life has made it the most inviting planet in our solar system. It is the only other place that man may one day call home.

From the beginnings of our solar system 4.5 billions years ago, there remain many clues to reveal its evolution. Remnant debris, asteroids, and comets are what's left of the building blocks to our celestial neighborhood.

In the cold, dark expanse of our solar system, beyond the asteroid belt, lie the giant planets. Some can be seen with the naked eye, others have been visited by our camera. What secrets do they hold?

There are many more worlds in our solar system than just the planets. The mysterious moons of the gas giants may hold much more than we ever imagined. Each one is unique, and each one deserves a scrutinous eye.

The sun bathes our planet in warmth and light. It powers the machinery of nature, our weather, and it encourages and sustains life on land and at sea. We study it closely, and it can reveal the secrets of all other stars.

The Fermi Paradox asks the ultimate question: why have alien civilizations not presented themselves?

An advanced $900 million planetary explorer designed to peer across multiple wavelengths to reveal intricate details undetectable by the human eye.

The night sky has always been a source of wonder and mystery. In the quest to explore the universe, our greatest ally is the Hubble telescope.

When the universe formed, all of space blazed white-hot, but it didn't last. Darkness reined for 200 million years before the light was reborn.

Color is essential to both art and astronomy. When measured, it can tell us the temperature, chemical composition, and motion of astronomical objects.

For most of human history, the night sky seemed two-dimensional. To our ancestors, this perspective gave no hint to the universe's true depth.

The Hubble telescope finds design on a grand scale, especially when it zooms in on the spiral galaxies that populate the universe around us.

The core of a galaxy attracts our eyes and makes up feel like we are gazing down a deep well. But this illusion conceals an even deeper truth.

Humans have always used their best technology to save lives.

Green technology is radically changing the way people get around.

High tech is bringing fossils, artwork and historical artifacts to classrooms around the world.

Inventors are up to some crazy things.

Chuck Pell visits a lab where vaccines are developed inside of plants and then processed into pills.

We have always been interested in the workings of Earth, and high tech is giving them new insights.

This lab creates a blistering desert one minute and a tropical rain forest the next.

We now know how many trees are on Earth and, almost in real-time, can tell who’s cutting them down.

The Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Red Square, and of course, shots of vodka... for the first time, Geoff and Steve make the journey to Russia in search of one of the most rare and valuable meteorites on the planet—the Dronino ataxite.

Geoff and Steve set out to uncover a forgotten extraterrestrial treasure from the cornfields of Amana, Iowa. On February 12, 1875 the legendary "detonating space rock" hurled through the air and exploded six times over the farm fields of Iowa.

Geoff and Steve venture to one of the country's meteorite capitals: Arizona, home of over 93 different space rocks. To better understand this phenomenon, the guys investigate the Mecca of meteorites, Franconia.

Even before the start of recorded history, ancient engineers were erecting giant monuments.

Awe-inspiring palaces are the legacy that demonstrates the brilliance of Islamic engineers.

Stadiums have been regarded as architectural masterpieces, none more so than the Colosseum in Rome.

How gold is mined and transformed into everyday objects like jewelry and currency.

Hurricanes are one of the most destructive weather events to strike our planet and have the same power as a nuclear weapon.

The earth is 4.5 billion years old and it is slowly dying. Tectonic activity is slowly cooling the planet – the continents will eventually move together to form a new supercontinent called Pangea Ultima.

Earth has an evil twin. Venus. It is shrouded in a lethal atmosphere of carbon dioxide and acid rain. The surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead and the pressure high enough to crush a nuclear submarine.

As scientists and astronomers peer more closely and with evermore fidelity at nearby stars, they are discovering countless exo planets. How many Earth-like planets are out there? Could one of them hold life not so different from our own?

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