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.

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 ...

Thirty years ago, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was traveling far out into the cosmos when it turned around and snapped one of the most iconic images of all time — the "Pale Blue Dot," an image of Earth, a ...

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 ...

It began the way many discoveries do — a tickling of curiosity in the back of someone’s mind. That someone was astronomer and communicator Carl Sagan. The thing doing the tickling was the trajectory ...

The famous “Pale Blue Dot” is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles. (Courtesy of NASA) The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President ...

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Carl Sagan's work in astronomy is often associated with unlocking the grand mysteries of the universe and the search for extraterrestrial life. However, Sagan himself believed in ...

Carl Sagan was born November 9, 1934, 87 years ago today. He would go on to become one of the most influential voices in astronomy, earning 22 honorary degrees from US colleges and universities and ...

In my previous post I shared my interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson about the new season of the legendary Cosmos television series. But to get deeper inside the show, I also spoke with Ann Druyan, who ...

Here on Earth, at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, scientists have created stardust -- or more accurately, they've recreated the dust that forms in the outer atmosphere of a dying red giant ...