Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

A thrilling, new adventure across space and time begins.

Artificial selection is one example, eyes another, of the well-documented and inescapable process of evolution, by natural selection.

Tyson sets off on the Ship of the Imagination to chase a single comet through its million-year plunge toward Sol.

Explore how light, time, and gravity affect our perception of the universe.

William Herschel discovers the infrared and the signature hidden in the light of every star, eventually unlocking one of the keys to the cosmos.

Venture on a voyage to the bottom of a dewdrop to explore the universe on the smallest scale and observe exotic life forms invisible to the naked eye.

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

Explore the violent cosmic phenomenon of supernovas, which on average occur one billion times per year in the observable universe.

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

The autobiography of the Earth is written in its atoms, its oceans, its continents, and all living things.

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

Tyson discusses our nearest neighboring planet Venus and its climate, the climate change on Earth, and if it is caused by humans.

Tyson ends the series by emphasizing Sagan's message on the human condition in the vastness of the cosmos.