Senarai anugerah yang diterima oleh Tyson:[68]

Anugerah

• 2001 Medal of Excellence, Columbia University, New York City
• 2004 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
• 2005 Science Writing Award
• 2007 Klopsteg Memorial Award winner
• 2009 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award from the Space Foundation for significant contributions to public awareness of space programs
• 2009 Isaac Asimov Award from the American Humanist Association[69]
• 2014 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host
• 2014 Dunlap Prize[70]
• 2015 Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences[71]
• 2015 Cosmos Award, Planetary Society
• 2017 Hubbard Medal, National Geographic Society[72]
• 2017 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science and Communication, Starmus[73]

Penghargaan

• 2000 Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive, People magazine[74]
• 2001 asteroid named: 13123 Tyson, renamed from Asteroid 1994KA by the International Astronomical Union
• 2001 The Tech 100, voted by editors of Crain's Magazine to be among the 100 most influential technology leaders in New York
• 2004 Fifty Most Important African-Americans in Research Science[75]
• 2007 Harvard 100: Most Influential, Harvard Alumni magazine, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 2007 Time 100, voted by the editors of Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential persons in the world[76]
• 2008 Discover Magazine memilih beliau sebagai salah seorang daripada "10 Orang Paling Berpengaruh dalam Sains"[77]

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