Jelaskan 2014 Dunlap Prize dari Neil deGrasse Tyson

2015 Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences

2015 Cosmos Award, Planetary Society

2017 Hubbard Medal, National Geographic Society

2017 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science and Communication, Starmus

2000 Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive, People magazine

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

2007 Harvard 100: Most Influential, Harvard Alumni magazine, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2007 The Time 100, voted by the editors of Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential persons in the world

2008 Discover Magazine selected him as one of "The 10 Most Influential People in Science"