Beloved astronomer Carl Sagan ... average American, Sagan insisted the opposite. "People read the stock market quotations and ...

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 ... from how you define time to what it might look like inside a wormhole—with flair and a refreshing dash of humor. Sagan was David Duncan Professor of Astronomy ...

SAGAN: I personally have been ... intelligence from childhood. It swept me up, and I've been involved in sending space craft to nearby planets to look for life and in the radio search for ...

Carl Sagan made it look easy, but most scientists saw public engagement as either career suicide or an activity best left to journalists. Fast-forward to 2025, and science communicators, now ...

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 ...