Neil deGrasse Tyson Podcasts

Anyone looking for a neatly labelled Neil deGrasse Tyson profile will hit a basic problem: none of the episodes mentioning him names him in the title. He usually surfaces inside conversations advertised around something else. The listening experience is therefore less a guided tour of Tyson than a trail of passing references through astronomy, technology, belief and popular culture.

The closest thing to a home base

StarTalk Radio offers the most sustained trail. Its episode list ranges from asteroid science in Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr. to cosmology in Cosmic Queries – Origins of the Universe, with Janna Levin and science fiction in Project Hail Mary with Andy Weir. The format is brisk and conversational: technical explanations meet comic interruptions, while guests receive enough room to develop an idea.

Even here, Tyson is part of the surrounding conversation rather than its advertised subject. StarTalk All-Stars follows a similar science-and-comedy rhythm, but the single relevant episode, Time and the Universe, with Charles Liu, points listeners toward its guest and topic instead.

Passing through other conversations

Beyond the StarTalk orbit, the references scatter quickly. Strange and Unexplained mixes curiosity with caution around claims and official accounts in Trump's UFO Order - Hope, Skepticism And Hard Limits. Yes And No Podcast approaches adjacent questions through loose, exploratory discussion in The Truth is Out There? UFOs and Government Secrets and Will A.I. Doom Humanity?

The context shifts again on Liberti Church Gold Coast Sermons, where How Christianity Makes Sense of our World #5 - Science places science inside a theological argument. This is Rocket Science supplies still another setting with Episode #032 Mythology & Astrology. These may be useful for hearing where Tyson enters wider cultural debates, but they should be treated as incidental mentions, not dedicated coverage.

Where to start

Begin with StarTalk Radio’s Cosmic Queries – Origins of the Universe, with Janna Levin for the strongest science-talk setting. Try StarTalk All-Stars’ Time and the Universe, with Charles Liu for a faster expert-and-comic exchange. For an outside, more skeptical context, choose Strange and Unexplained’s Trump's UFO Order - Hope, Skepticism And Hard Limits.

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