Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist
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| 2025 | Scheduled to be a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy! |
| 2024 | Tyson is set to appear in the film This Is Me... Now: A Love Story, playing a character named Taurus. |
| 2023 | Published two books: 'Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization' and 'To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery' (co-authored with Lindsey Nyx Walker). |
| 2023 | Voice acts as Dr. Moore in the TV show Pantheon |
| 2021 | Published book 'Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going'. |
| 2020 | Achieved the YouTube Gold Creator Award, recognizing his significant online content creation and audience engagement. |
| March 9 2020 | Returned with a follow-up season of Cosmos titled Cosmos: Possible Worlds. |
| 2019 | Published book 'Letters from an Astrophysicist'. |
| July 2019 | American Museum of Natural History confirmed Neil deGrasse Tyson would retain his position as director of the Hayden Planetarium following the investigations. |
| March 15 2019 | National Geographic and Fox completed their investigation and announced they would move forward with StarTalk and Cosmos, without further comment. |
| January 3 2019 | National Geographic Channel announced putting StarTalk episodes on hiatus to allow for investigation of sexual misconduct allegations. |
| 2018 | Appears in two episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver |
| 2018 | Received an honorary doctorate from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut |
| 2018 | Tyson made a guest appearance on the first episode of the final season of The Big Bang Theory, alongside Bill Nye. |
| 2018 | Tyson played the role of Merlin in the television film The Last Sharknado: It's About Time. |
| 2018 | Published book 'Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military' with Avis Lang. |
| 2018 | Received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for his book 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry'. |
| November 2018 | Sexual misconduct allegations against Tyson surfaced, including an accusation by Ashley Watson, his assistant on Cosmos, who claimed he made inappropriate sexual advances leading to her resignation. |
| 2017 | Appears as himself in The Simpsons and Super Science Friends |
| 2017 | Awarded an honorary doctorate from Baruch College in New York City |
| 2017 | Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared as himself in the mobile app game Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow |
| 2017 | Honored with two significant awards: the Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society and the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication from Starmus. |
| 2017 | Logic released the song 'AfricAryaN' from the album 'Everybody' |
| 2017 | Published the book 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry'. |
| 2016 | Makes multiple TV appearances, including in BoJack Horseman, 100 Things to Do Before High School, Future-Worm!, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Regular Show, and appears in the documentary Mars |
| 2016 | Published book 'Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour' (co-authored with Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott). |
| 2016 | Tyson narrated and served as script supervisor for the science documentary Food Evolution, directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. |
| 2016 | A new species of leaping frog, Indirana tysoni, was named after Neil deGrasse Tyson by a group of researchers including Neelesh Dahanukar, Nikhil Modak, Keerthi Krutha, P. O. Nameer, Anand D. Padhye, and Sanjay Molur, in recognition of his scientific contributions. |
| 2016 | Tyson made a guest appearance on the Avenged Sevenfold album The Stage, delivering a monologue on the track 'Exist'. |
| 2015 | Received two prestigious awards: the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and the Cosmos Award from the Planetary Society. |
| 2015 | Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| 2015 | Received the Public Welfare Medal from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for his role in exciting the public about science. Also began a StarTalk television series on National Geographic. |
| April 20 2015 | Began hosting the late-night talk show StarTalk on the National Geographic Channel. |
| 2014 | Won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host and the Dunlap Prize. |
| 2014 | Hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. |
| 2014 | In a Grantland interview, Tyson elaborated on his stance about social barriers in science, emphasizing the importance of equal access to opportunity before discussing potential genetic differences. |
| March 2014 | During an episode of The Nerdist Podcast, Tyson controversially described philosophy as 'useless', drawing criticism from philosophers like Massimo Pigliucci. |
| March 2014 | In a philosophical discussion with Massimo Pigliucci, Tyson explicitly stated he remains 'unconvinced by any claims about the existence or power of a divine force'. |
| March 8 2014 | Tyson delivered a SXSW Interactive keynote presentation at the Austin Convention Center. |
| February 28 2014 | Attended as a celebrity guest at the White House Student Film Festival. |
| May 2013 | Tyson was suggested as a potential nominee for the Science Laureates of the United States Act of 2013. |
| 2012 | Published book 'Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier'. |
| 2012 | Appears as himself in the TV show Martha Speaks and releases a 6-part lecture series 'The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries' |
| 2012 | Awarded honorary doctorates from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts |
| November 7 2012 | In Action Comics #14, Tyson appears in a story where he determines Superman's home planet Krypton orbits the red dwarf star LHS 2520 in the constellation Corvus. |
| March 2012 | Tyson testified before the United States Senate Science Committee about NASA's funding and importance, which inspired the founding of Penny4NASA, a campaign advocating for doubling NASA's budget to one percent of the federal budget. |
| 2011 | Received an honorary doctorate from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| May 2011 | On a StarTalk Radio show called 'The Political Science of the Daily Show', Tyson revealed that he donates all income earned as a guest speaker. |
| 2010 | Awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut |
| 2010 | An anonymous woman alleged Tyson made inappropriate comments to her during a holiday party at the American Museum of Natural History. |
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