Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is bringing The Search for Life in the Universe to San Diego, and if you’ve ever watched him on The Daily Show or listened to StarTalk, you know he has a way of making modern physics actually entertaining.
The talk starts with Mars and reviews the ongoing effort to search for habitable planets, liquid water, and life in the cosmos, culminating in the search for intelligent life – whether or not it already exists on Earth. It’s classic Tyson: informative, sometimes humorous, and designed to make you think differently about the universe around us.
A Science Advocate Who Actually Entertains
As a highly popular and influential science advocate, Tyson manages to capture audiences with his sometimes humorous and always informative insights into modern physics.
A regular guest on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, plus host of his own enduring radio show StarTalk, there’s something of the entertainer about him that continually inspires generations old and new to take an interest in what’s out there.
Most recently, he took on the challenge of updating Carl Sagan’s definitive 1980 television series ‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’ with ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,’ asking questions about the abyss of space that push us to reconsider what we think we know.
See you there!
Tyson’s talks are one of those rare chances to hear someone who genuinely cares about science communication break down complex ideas in a way that’s accessible without being dumbed down.
📆 Thursday, February 19, 2026, 7:30 PM
📍 1100 Third Ave, San Diego
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See you there, San Diego!