Keith’s note: NASA’s Astrobiology Institute has over 879,000 followers on its Twitter account @AstrobiologyNAI. Not once in the months that “Cosmos” has been on air has it ever made mention of the show – despite the fac that it amounted to a free multi-week advertisement for Astrobiology. If you go to the offocial NASA NAI website you will see that it totally ignored Cosmos too. Yet @NASA and other Twitter […]

COSMOS Then and Now, Keith Cowing “The new incarnation of “COSMOS” hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson debuted the other night. Highly anticipated, this new effort seeks to reboot, rekindle, and revitalize the indelible impression that its predecessor, hosted by Carl Sagan, made on many of us back in 1980. The first episode of the new COSMOS did not disappoint. Will it be the equal of its predecessor? Hard to say […]

Trailer for Cosmos the TV Series [Watch], SpaceRef “At Comic-Con in San Diego this past weekend Neil deGrasse Tyson introduced the first trailer for the Cosmos, a 13 part miniseries he’ll be hosting on Fox next year made in conjunction with National Geographic. The series is a remake of the immensely popular 1980’s series when Carl Sagan was host and which aired on PBS in September 1980 through December that […]