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 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, ...