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.

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.

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

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

The Ship of the Imagination takes a journey across the cosmos to explore the potential of life forms surviving eternally; the Cosmic Calendar of the Future holds the answers to events which lie ahead in a prospective vision of the galaxy.

The Ship of Imagination travels all the way to Venus to explore the greenhouse effect, the history of global warming, the results of climate change and the impact that humans have on the Earth's atmosphere.

The Ship of Imagination makes a journey to meet Fritz Zwicky, whose observations of supernovas helped scientists to better understand dark energy, one of the biggest mysterious explanations for the expansion of the universe; 'The Pale Blue Dot.'