Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in online and print publishing. She was named ...

Carl Sagan at his Cornell University laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1974. Santi Visalli, Inc./Archive Photos via Getty Images On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but ...

Carl Sagan had a gift for translating complex scientific ideas into stories that sparked wonder and inspired generations, including many of the scientists shaping today’s discoveries. Through his ...

Carl Sagan, the acclaimed astronomer, astrophysicist and author who introduced a whole generation to the wonders of the heavens with his bestselling "Cosmos" science book and TV series and made saying ...

What is essential for this problem is a global consciousness [...] that transcends our exclusive identifications with the generational and political groupings into which by accident we have been born.

Carl Sagan proposed that Voyager 1, which had ventured into space, turn around and capture a photograph of Earth to transmit ...

The revival of “Cosmos” roughly coincides with another Sagan milestone: The availability of all his papers at the Library of Congress, which bought the Sagan archive from Druyan with money from ...

Sisson’s loosely sketched mixed-media illustrations trace the life of Carl Sagan, beginning with his childhood spent in Brooklyn, an environment seemingly ill-suited to learning about the stars. Yet ...

Carl Sagan was born November 9, 1934, 87 years ago today. He would go on to become one of the most influential voices in astronomy, earning 22 honorary degrees from US colleges and universities and ...

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62. What most people don’t know about Sagan, and what has been somewhat ...

Jean-Luc Margot has received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and The Planetary Society, which was co-founded by Carl Sagan. He met Carl ...