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 ...

The astrophysicist says that participating in a "great unfolding of a cosmic story" should make us feel large, not small.

A trailer for astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey just aired at Comic-Con 2013, and it's a dazzling display of what's to come next year. Based on Carl Sagan's pioneering ...

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.

With his head in the clouds and hands on the budget, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the few American scientists commanding the attention of pop culture and the scientific journal.