Carl Sagan. The American astronomer and science communicator's work plays a large part in not one but two major releases this ...

From there, Druyan worked with Sagan on the Cosmos television show, on several of his books, and on the story that begat the movie Contact. After Sagan’s death in 1996, Druyan remained prolific.

In Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, a colleague of the astronomer is said to have remarked that Sagan “desperately wants to find life someplace, anyplace — on Mars, on Titan, in the solar system or ...

From there, Druyan worked with Sagan on the Cosmos television show, on several of his books, and on the story that begat the movie Contact.After Sagan's death in 1996, Druyan remained prolific. She ...

Famed astronomer Carl Sagan shared the universe with millions with 1980's 'Cosmos.' That legacy lives on with 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, which premieres March 9 ...

The television series Cosmos, which first aired 30 years ago this week, made a celebrity of science communicator Carl Sagan. In this archival 1994 Science Friday interview, Sagan discusses his ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 mission to explore the outer solar system and beyond, Carl Sagan urged NASA to have the spacecraft photograph Earth. This photo was captured on February 14, 1990.

Carl Sagan hosted and co-wrote ‘Cosmos,’ a 13-part TV series that aired on PBS stations from 1980 to 1981. Mickey Adair/Michael Ochs Archives/Hulton Archive via Getty Images.

Three decades on, Sagan’s classic experiment has three important lessons for researchers and science publishers. The first is that it is important to test not just what we don’t know, but what ...