Cosmos: Possible Worlds

2020
4.9
212 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (13)

1 Ladder to The Stars
9/22/20
Season-only
Viewers are invited on an adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. Visit a 100,000-year-old laboratory and examine the change in lifestyle that radically altered human existence and the life of the heretic who found God in the book of nature, which opened our way to the stars.
2 The Fleeting Grace of The Habitable Zone
9/22/20
Season-only
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. Explore the story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge, as well as a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.
3 Lost City of Life
9/29/20
Season-only
Discover 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 beginnings in a green jewel. As he searched for the origins of life, he risked his own, daring to toy with his Nazi tormentors.
4 Vavilov
10/6/20
Season-only
In the first half of the 20th century, pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled five continents to assemble a treasury of the world's seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger, and his refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. Witness the heroism of his colleagues and its impact on our lives in one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.
5 The Cosmic Connectome
3/23/20
Season-only
Embark on a voyage of discovery through the evolution of consciousness with stops in ancient Greece and a visit to the largest life-form on Earth. This journey takes us into the poignant dream of an abandoned orphan who opened the way to our understanding of the architecture of thought and introduced a vision of a galactic network of thought.
6 The Man of a Trillion Worlds
11/10/20
Season-only
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 to realize his childhood dreams, carrying their research forward and communicating its significance to the whole world.
7 The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
3/30/20
Season-only
A hidden underground network — a collaboration of four kingdoms of life — is revealed. Explore a true first-contact story between humans and beings who communicate with a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for tens of millions of years.
8 The Sacrifice of Cassini
3/30/20
Season-only
A mysterious untold story is brought to life: A scientist figures out how to go to the moon while fighting for his life in a World War I trench. He writes a letter addressed to readers 50 years in the future, making the Apollo missions possible. Witness the 20-year-long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to self-destruct on another world.
9 Magic Without Lies
12/1/20
Season-only
In the counterintuitive realm of quantum mechanics, light can be two contradictory things, and somehow - no one knows how - an unseen observer can alter the nature of reality. Meet the man who stumbled upon this hole in reality and the still-unfolding technological revolution that it made possible.
10 A Tale of Two Atoms
4/6/20
Season-only
Two atoms from different parts of the universe meet on a small planet. Examine how a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world and behold a gripping cautionary tale of others who grew used to living in the shadow of grave danger until it killed them all … except for one.
11 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
12/14/20
Season-only
From the birth of the devil in ancient Persia, where a beloved family dog becomes a seething beast, to a searing story of saintliness among macaque monkeys, join an exploration into the human potential for change. One of history's greatest monsters is transformed into one of its shining lights.
12 Coming of Age in The Antropocene
12/15/20
Season-only
In what kind of world can a child born in 2020 expect to grow up? When did our slide into planetwide environmental destruction begin? Enter the possible world that awaits a 2020 baby in her twenties: one darkened by our refusal to confront the real and mounting challenges we face but one that still offers a message of hope.
13 Seven Wonders of The New World
12/21/20
Season-only
Young Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson first discovered their passion for science at the New York World's Fairs of the past. Visit the dazzling pavilions of the 2039 New York World's Fair, where problems currently considered intractable may have been solved through public commitment and scientific imagination. A child's journey comes full circle, presenting a future bright with possibilities.

About this show

Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Like the legendary original COSMOS series, it is the saga of how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
212 reviews
Miss Cantaloupe
February 10, 2020
I love this show but it’s not letting me watch the episode even though PayPal confirms that I purchased it. It brings me to another pop up screen and asks me to purchase again to watch on YouTube. Frustrating.
Dynamite Skye
September 8, 2015
this is my all-time favorite show. it's touching and scary... awe inspiring yet easy to understand. It's the type of show that makes you wish you were still in school so you could study cosmology or astrophysics or biology or chemistry. it is moving to l3a4n how special and rare we are and yet in the scale of the universe we are virtually insignificant. It is beautiful to the eyes , ears and mind. lovely, in every sense of the word.
Neil Vora
June 26, 2014
NDT brings the venerable series to the 21st century with articulate and challenging views. He highlights the unwavering push of humanity's hunger for knowledge and it's vehicle of science. Beautiful!