On the 30th anniversary of “The Last Self-Help Book.” It is February of 1969 and a new television series is beginning on BBC2. The first images—they are in color, which is noteworthy—are of ...

In 1980, Carl Sagan's Cosmos took television by storm with its accessible yet rich and exciting approach to astronomy. Over 30 years later Ann Druyan, producer of the original programme and widow to ...

“Sagan took scientific facts and wove a kind of spiritual connection between us and the cosmos,” said Daniel Fincke, a philosopher and blogger who first encountered Sagan through the 1997 film version ...

The noted late astronomer Carl Sagan once said that we are, all of us, made of star-stuff. But instead of just telling us that our atoms in our bodies were created in the furnace of long-dead stars, ...

Carl Sagan at his Cornell University laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1974. Santi Visalli, Inc./Archive Photos via Getty Images On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but ...

Ann Druyan is an executive producer, writer and director of “Cosmos: Possible Worlds,” a National Geographic TV series premiering Monday. She’s also the author of a companion book, and the widow of ...

Artwork from astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan‘s groundbreaking 1980 television series, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, will be sold for the first time at Heritage Auctions New York on April 8.

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, Seth MacFarlane poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. The Library of Congress has acquired the personal papers of the late scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan, ...

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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 book ...