If you have even the most remote interest in astronomy, it’s likely Carl Sagan’s name has came up an uncountable number of times in your research on the subject. Though he passed away years ago, his ...

Forget buzzy actors or huge franchises. The movies this summer belong to one surprising star: Carl Sagan. Elio and Glordon explore the Communiverse in "Elio." Elio and Glordon explore the Communiverse ...

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.

What do aliens and humans have in common? Probably not their looks. This week we’re reminded of this via a viral 1978 clip of the late astronomer Carl Sagan. In it, Sagan discusses what Star Wars gets ...

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and ...

It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instruments on board NASA's Galileo robotic spacecraft. Yes, you read that correctly.

As a young lad in the 1970s I remember enjoying Carl Sagan’s television programme Cosmos. Did it inspire me to become a physicist? Not really, but it was entertaining and there was something very ...

The late Cornell University planetary scientist, astronomer and author Carl Sagan was not only a masterful science communicator but had the gift of pushing humanity to think in innovative ways. His ...

Sagan proposed that Voyager 1, which had ventured into space, turn around and take a photograph of Earth to transmit back.

Excitement is stirring in astronomers and the uninitiated alike for the upcoming April 8 solar eclipse, during which the moon will completely shadow the earth in a line across the country, blocking ...

This book excerpt originally appeared in the December 1999 issue of HIGH TIMES. When Carl Sagan died of pneumonia in 1996 at age 62, he was one of the most famous scientists in the world. Not only had ...