Kent Gibson, an Emmy-winning producer and sound designer, died Oct. 23 in hospice care in Seattle after a struggle with ...

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who expanded scientific understanding of the universe and helped millions appreciate the wonders of the cosmos, will be the subject of an ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan ignited the public's interest in the universe and extraterrestials with his PBS series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in 1980. Sagan was on the faculty of Cornell University from ...

‘Cosmos” is coming. The 13-part documentary series about the universe and discovery — a reboot of the 1980 PBS series — premieres Sunday night on Fox, the National Geographic Channel, and a host of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Humanists are especially eager. They claim Sagan as their own, and see in the “Cosmos” series — a multipart journey to the outer reaches of our universe — and in his dozen books a vibrant strain of ...