On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. In that ...

A top newly appointed Nasa official has taken an unconventional oath to assume charge of her duties. Makenzie Lystrup, who became the first woman in Nasa’s history to be appointed the director of ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...

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The famous “Pale Blue Dot” is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles. (Courtesy of NASA) The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

After eagle-eyed netizens noticed that the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was sworn in on Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot,” we, like everyone else, were very excited — and as it turns ...