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An epic adventure in time, space and life.
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.
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Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.
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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 change in life-style that radically altered human existence and the life of the heretic who found god in the book of nature, opening our way to the stars.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann Druyan
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 story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge and a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.
Directed by Ann DruyanWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Carl Sagan, Nick Sagan, Clinnette Minnis, Shereen Balles, Kapeneta Te'o-Tafiti, Elizardo Torrez, Sasha Sagan
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 beginning in a green jewel. As he searched for life's origin, he risked his own, daring to toy with his Nazi tormentors.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Patrick Stewart, Joseph Grange, Carol Bach Rita
Episode 4
In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.
Directed by Ann DruyanWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Viggo Mortensen, Seth MacFarlane, Ken Lally, Phil Crowley, Yuri Lowenthal, Edita Brychta, Christopher Lee Parson, Andrew Pifko
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 the poignant dream of an abandoned orphan that opened the way to our understanding of the architecture of thought and beyond to a vision of a galactic network of thought.
Directed by Ann DruyanWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Marcelo Tubert, Mara Junot, Rick Pasqualone, Elijah Braik, Novi Brown
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 forged in the clash of his mentors, two scientific titans. Sagan goes on realize his childhood dreams, to carry their research forward and communicate its significance to the whole world.
Directed by Ann DruyanWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon Braga, André BormanisGuest stars Carl Sagan, Jamie Hanes, Will Greenburg, Dex de Groot, Joep Fellinger, Elizardo Torrez, Sasha Sagan
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 humans and beings who communicate in a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for many tens of millions of years.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Steve Oatway
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 letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.
Directed by Ann DruyanWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Adam Tsekhman, Neil Arnote
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.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Ernie Vigil
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 survival.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Seth MacFarlane, Judd Hirsch, Olivia D'Abo
Episode 11
An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Masoumeh Husseini, Harssh A. Singh
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.
Directed by Ann DruyanWritten by Ann Druyan, Brannon BragaGuest stars Seth MacFarlane, Trang Vo, Yurika Okamura, Selyna Chan, Sianna Chan
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 exist.
Directed by Brannon BragaWritten by Ann DruyanGuest stars Sasha Sagan, Joseph J. Micucci, Trang Vo, Lennard Ortmann, Alex Bartram, Brannon Braga, Marcello Guedes, Leandro Guedes
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
Neil deGrasse TysonSelf - Host
Ann Druyan
John Steven RochaBellaramine (voice)
Paul TelferAngry Scholar #2 (voice)
Jonathan Morgan HeitJohn Herschel (voice)
Cary ElwesEdmond Halley / Robert Hooke (voice)
Tom KonkleSamuel Pepys (voice)
Alexander SiddigIsaac Newton (voice)
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