With the occasional nod to his greatest achievements, his exploration of the cosmos is at times a challenging, daunting ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...

Carl Sagan, the astronomer ... Sagan was David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University when he died in 1996.

Dr. Sagan, a planetary scientist who was recognized for both his ingenious scientific ideas as well as his enormous influence in popularizing space science, was a new member of the SETI Institute’s ...

The Carl Sagan Center for Research (CSC) brings together all the scientific research at the ... Research at the CSC focuses on a wide set of disciplines ranging from observing and modeling the ...

The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President Jimmy ... which surveyed Jupiter and Saturn before heading into interstellar space. Sagan visited the White House in 1977, discussing ...

SAGAN: I personally have been captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life, and especially extraterrestrial intelligence from childhood. It swept me up, and I've been involved in sending space ...

Carl Sagan made it look easy, but most scientists saw public engagement as either career ... The Birth of Science Influencers While people on the internet talked about science before COVID-19, the ...