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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Three of the 13 awards this year are going to astronomers, including the academy's highest honor--the Public Welfare Medal--which is being given to Carl E. Sagan, 59, David Duncan Professor of ...

Carl Sagan. Astronomer. Astrophysicist. Cosmologist. Writer. Great guy. Personal hero. He was born November 9, 1934. Happy Birthday, Dr. Sagan—we miss you. We need more people like you on the planet.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Library of Congress has acquired the personal papers of the late astronomer Carl Sagan thanks to the generosity of Seth MacFarlane, creator of the TV series “Family Guy” creator.

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 ...

For his work making the Mars Exploration Rover mission a compelling saga for millions of people, Steven W. Squyres, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy and principal scientific investigator for ...