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A humbling photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 probe from a distance of 3.7 billion miles has been reprocessed by…

Did you see those slick animations of space colonies that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos showed off yesterday? They were,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

“There’s just a tremendously exciting prospect called solar sailing. [It] travels on the radiation and particles…

If you’re ever feeling crappy about not getting recognition for your work, just remember that even Carl Sagan got…

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…

Carl Sagan is arguably science's biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason. Which makes it all…