Welcome to the first of our series Notes from a Small Planet. Maverick Earth was started out of concern over global warming, ...

Look at those worry lines. Carl Sagan is genuinely concerned. Only it's not television ratings or book sales or an impending cosmic explosion that has captured the attention of America's most popular ...

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 ...

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62. What most people don’t know about Sagan, and what has been somewhat ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

Sagan, C. For future times and beings.--Drake, F. D. The foundations of the Voyager record.--Lomberg, J. Pictures of Earth.--Sagan, L. S. A Voyager's greetings ...

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.

In the wake of NASA’s exciting Voyager 2 discoveries, we honor the birthday of one of society’s most prominent astronomy figures: Carl Sagan. In addition to his role as a worldwide leader of ...

Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Christopher Glein will present “Seafaring in Space: A Personal Voyage to Enceladus” as the Carl Sagan Lecture at AGU’s Fall 2025 meeting. He will discuss the Saturn ...