All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 1 minute Dorion ...

(RNS) Many viewers may be hoping that “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” lives up to the original series created by astronomer Carl Sagan 35 years ago. But no one will watch the program, airing Sunday ...

We live in Carl Sagan’s universe–awesomely vast, deeply humbling. It’s a universe that, as Sagan reminded us again and again, isn’t about us. We’re a granular element. Our presence may even be ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The late astronomer Carl Sagan has inspired scientists, astronauts and the world with his work ...

Michael Turgeon was a 2016-2017 Environmental Ethics Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. “Our lovely blue planet, the Earth, is the only home we know. Venus is too hot. Mars is too cold.

It was almost like a dispatch from another planet: the invitation to the young astronomer to leave Brooklyn and visit the lakes and gorges of upstate New York. "A letter shows up in my mailbox from ...