Tyson is the modern Sagan — he took the job of making people feel the universe and ran with it for a new generation.
His core move is the 'cosmic perspective.' Zoom out far enough and the stuff eating you alive gets put in scale. Not dismissed — just sized correctly against 13.8 billion years and a hundred billion galaxies.
And his favourite point cuts both ways: we're not just in the universe, the universe is in us. The atoms, the elements, the same physics. You're not a visitor to the cosmos — you're made of it.
When you're spiralling, that's a real tool. Step back. Look up. Your problem is real, but it's one small thing on one small planet, and you're somehow a piece of the universe that woke up enough to worry about it. That's perspective, and perspective is half of feeling less lost.