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Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" uses the history of humanity along with science to explore an extraordinary realm of future possibilities. The ...

Last night, we watched the final episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. The series ended as it started, with a nod to individual scientific achievers but a focus on the ability of every inquisitive ...

The geeks have risen up! That’s, at least in part, the reason “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” host and world renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks his show got picked up to run in primetime ...

The best thing that television has yet produced aired on PBS in 1980. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is, still, a remarkable thing to watch—ambitious, humane, and fascinating, it covers life, ...

Every generation has its scientific idol, from theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to Crog, the first caveman who figured out how to use fire without setting himself on fire. Astrophysicist Neil ...

All the things that go bump in the night (and in the day). And yes, the universe wants to kill you: On occasion, these collisions – asteroid & comet impacts on Earth – render life extinct. Learn why ...