By searching for the telltale, periodic dimming of light from distant stars, astronomers can spot orbiting exoplanets…
Any Carl Sagan fan knows you’re made of star stuff. Protons don’t decay into any other particles (as far as we can tell)…
When Contact first opened, 20 years ago today, I thought it was a masterpiece. For a soon-to-be high school senior,…
Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average person…
Doctor Carl Sagan and the Viking lander in the desert. What more could you possibly want?!
Symphony of Science is back! The project, helmed by John D. Boswell (aka Melodysheep) had been putting together some…
In 1972, a number of notable SF authors and scientists boarded the S.S. Statendam for a unique experience: witness the…
A young Carl Sagan comes to vivid life in “Star Stuff,” a short film by Croatian film director Ratimir Rakuljic. It…
It’s been 38 years since NASA launched a gold record containing sounds and sights of Earth into space. Yesterday, NASA…
Over the weekend, the LightSail satellite unfurled its gigantic solar sail to help propel it through space. Now, the…
Twenty years ago, discovering another Earth sounded like a science fictional dream. But within a generation,…
Cornell University’s Institute for Pale Blue Dots has a new name. Now called the Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot…
“There’s just a tremendously exciting prospect called solar sailing. [It] travels on the radiation and particles that…
If you’re ever feeling crappy about not getting recognition for your work, just remember that even Carl Sagan got negs…
It’s become a legend of the space age. The brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi, during a lunchtime conversation at Los…
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in…
Carl Sagan is arguably science's biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason. Which makes it all the…
25 years ago today, Voyager I turned around to take a photo of Earth on its way out of the Solar System. You are…
By rights, this is what space should sound like.
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