Cosmos - Possible Worlds

Neil deGrasse Tyson returns as host to translate more revelations of science into a lavish transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. Previously uncharted realms are revealed, including lost worlds, worlds yet to come, and the worlds that humans may one day inhabit.

13 Episodes

Ladder to the Stars

Season 2 - Episode 1

An adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. A visit to a 100,000-year-old laboratory. The story of...

The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone

Season 2 - Episode 2

There is no refuge from change in the cosmos. There will come a time in the life of the Sun when Earth will no longer be a home for us. The ...

Lost City of Life

Season 2 - Episode 3

A new vision of genesis at the bottom of the blood red sea of the infant Earth. And the story of the man who found the first clues to life's...

Vavilov

Season 2 - Episode 4

In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds....

The Cosmic Connectome

Season 2 - Episode 5

A voyage of discovery through the evolution of consciousness with stops in ancient Greece, a visit to the largest life form on Earth, into t...

The Man of a Trillion Worlds

Season 2 - Episode 6

A child lies on the rug of a tenement dreaming of interstellar adventures. At the dawn of the space age, a young Carl Sagan's career is forg...

The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

Season 2 - Episode 7

A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between huma...

The Sacrifice of Cassini

Season 2 - Episode 8

The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a lett...

Magic Without Lies

Season 2 - Episode 9

Meet the man who stumbled on a hole in the reality of quantum mechanics and the still-unfolding technology that made it possible.

A Tale of Two Atoms

Season 2 - Episode 10

How a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world, and a gripping cautionary tale of mass casualty and unlikely s...

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Season 2 - Episode 11

An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation...

Coming of Age In The Anthropocene

Season 2 - Episode 12

A baby is born on the day the show premieres. What kind of world can she expect to grow up in? One of her possible futures is explored.

Seven Wonders of The New World

Season 2 - Episode 13

Take a trip to the 2039 New York World’s Fair, where the problems we now consider hopeless have been solved and thrilling possibilities exis...