The central storytelling conceit is to present the entire history of the Universe as a one-year “cosmic calendar.” This helps put billions of years in a manageable context, beginning with the Big Bang ...

Take a trip beyond the stars with the documentary series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." Each episode explores the vastness of the universe in search for answers to some of mankind's deepest questions.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

This week on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Neil deGrasse Tyson finally broached the topic of climate change, and it was truly terrifying. But in addition to scaring the living fossil fuels out of us, ...

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 ...

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 change in life-style that radically altered human ...