Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...
Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with ...
"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...
On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...
In his book, Sagan wrote: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet.
Beloved astronomer Carl Sagan made a prescient prediction about a populist "charlatan" that seems to have come true decades ...
Wilson sold the home to renowned scientist Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan in 1981. Druyan still resides in Ithaca’s Cayuga Heights neighborhood, north of the Stewart Avenue property ...
Ahead of its dance with Saturn on Feb. 24, Mercury should be seen on Feb. 19 at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...
On Valentines Day in 1990, NASAs Voyager 1 captured the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot image, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 ...
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 ...
The 1980s was a decade known for the birth of the last of Generation X and big-hair bands. It also produced some of the best ... Read More ...