Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes viewers on a journey through the infinite cosmos. Scientific concepts are presented clearly, with both skepticism and wonder, to give full effect.

13 Episodes

Standing Up in the Milky Way

Season 1 - Episode 1

The Ship of the Imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies, can take us anywhere i...

Some of the Things that Molecules Do

Season 1 - Episode 2

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a voyage to explore the relatedness of all living things and the possible evolution of life in the cosmos. Go...

When Knowledge Conquered Fear

Season 1 - Episode 3

There was a time, not so long ago, when natural events could only be understood as gestures of divine displeasure. We will witness the momen...

A Sky Full of Ghosts

Season 1 - Episode 4

An exploration of how light, time and gravity combine to distort our perceptions of the universe. We eavesdrop on a series of walks along a ...

Hiding in the Light

Season 1 - Episode 5

The Ship of the Imagination travels back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brillia...

Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still

Season 1 - Episode 6

The Ship of the Imagination ventures on an epic voyage to the bottom of a dewdrop to explore the universe on the smallest scale and observe ...

The Clean Room

Season 1 - Episode 7

To determine the true age of the Earth, geochemist Clair Patterson developed the uranium-lead dating method to make an unprecedented discove...

Sisters of the Sun

Season 1 - Episode 8

Discover the remarkable story of Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne, two incredible women who challenged conventional wisdom and uncovered ...

The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

Season 1 - Episode 9

The Ship of the Imagination embarks on a journey through space and time to grasp how the autobiography of the Earth is written in its atoms,...

The Electric Boy

Season 1 - Episode 10

Travel to 19th century England and meet Michael Faraday, a child of poverty who grew up to invent the motor and the generator. His ideas abo...

The Immortals

Season 1 - Episode 11

The Ship of the Imagination travels across the cosmos to discover the possibility of beings that live forever and explain why other civiliza...

The World Set Free

Season 1 - Episode 12

The Ship of the Imagination travels to our near neighbor Venus, where we begin our journey to discover the long history of global warming an...

Unafraid of the Dark

Season 1 - Episode 13

The Ship of the Imagination makes a final journey to explore one of the biggest mysteries of the universe: dark energy. Meet one of science'...