In the wake of NASA’s exciting Voyager 2 discoveries, we honor the birthday of one of society’s most prominent astronomy figures: Carl Sagan. In addition to his role as a worldwide leader of ...

Students, professors, alumni and stargazers alike gathered in Kennedy Hall on Nov. 9 to celebrate the life and legacy of Carl Sagan in a 90th birthday celebration hosted by the Carl Sagan Institute.

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 ...

In the early 1980s, Carolyn Porco was completing her doctorate in earth and space sciences when she joined the Voyager team as an imaging scientist. As part of that mission, she collaborated with Carl ...

We keep our noses clean here at Gizmodo, so we’re finding ourselves a bit surprised that someone as upstanding as Carl Sagan, astronomer extraordinaire, was a stoner. It does kinda explain the ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — After a long day of rehearsing for her upcoming world tour, Katy Perry decided to peruse a few books to help her unwind before bed. “I was listening to ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan ...

Carl Sagan’s quote, “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere,” highlights ...

Feb. 26, 2018 An image purportedly showing famed astronomer Carl Sagan holding a sign reading "No Billboards i ... Jan. 23, 2017 A quote from a 1995 book by the late astronomer and science ...

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 ...