Feb 13
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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…
May 10 2019
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Did you see those slick animations of space colonies that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos showed off yesterday? They were,…
Jul 31 2018
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By searching for the telltale, periodic dimming of light from distant stars, astronomers can spot orbiting exoplanets…
Jul 27 2017
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Any Carl Sagan fan knows you’re made of star stuff. Protons don’t decay into any other particles (as far as we can…
Jul 11 2017
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When Contact first opened, 20 years ago today, I thought it was a masterpiece. For a soon-to-be high school senior,…
Jan 23 2017
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Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average…
Oct 27 2015
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Doctor Carl Sagan and the Viking lander in the desert. What more could you possibly want?!
Oct 24 2015
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Symphony of Science is back! The project, helmed by John D. Boswell (aka Melodysheep) had been putting together some…
Sep 27 2015
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In 1972, a number of notable SF authors and scientists boarded the S.S. Statendam for a unique experience: witness…
Sep 8 2015
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A young Carl Sagan comes to vivid life in “Star Stuff,” a short film by Croatian film director Ratimir Rakuljic. It…
Aug 18 2015
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Warner Bros. is developing a Carl Sagan biopic. They’ll have the help of Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow, who is going to be a producer on the film. [The Tracking Board]
Jul 28 2015
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It’s been 38 years since NASA launched a gold record containing sounds and sights of Earth into space. Yesterday,…
Jun 10 2015
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Over the weekend, the LightSail satellite unfurled its gigantic solar sail to help propel it through space. Now, the…
May 17 2015
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Twenty years ago, discovering another Earth sounded like a science fictional dream. But within a generation,…
May 11 2015
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Cornell University’s Institute for Pale Blue Dots has a new name. Now called the Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond, the multidisciplinary research institute is dedicated to investigating the life-harboring potential of other planets, and to acquiring a richer understanding of our own.
May 9 2015
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“There’s just a tremendously exciting prospect called solar sailing. [It] travels on the radiation and particles…
Apr 27 2015
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If you’re ever feeling crappy about not getting recognition for your work, just remember that even Carl Sagan got…
Apr 11 2015
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It’s become a legend of the space age. The brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi, during a lunchtime conversation at Los…
Mar 24 2015
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"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made…
Mar 12 2015
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Carl Sagan is arguably science's biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason. Which makes it all…