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What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

So he plotted dozens of solar system bodies on a simple graph that compared a world’s escape velocity — a measure of its gravity — with the amount of sunlight it receives, as atmospheres wither away ...

Edgar-Jones’ upcoming film, Voyagers, will see her alongside one of the “internet’s boyfriends” for a second time when she appears in the biopic about astronomer Carl Sagan with Garfield.

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Space movies aren’t just about rockets or distant planets, they’re also about people who leave everything behind because staying isn’t an option.

more than 5,500 planets have been detected orbiting stars other than the sun. Only a few are considered potentially habitable and are currently being researched, but as Carl Sagan said in Contact ...

In addition to the Drake Award, the ceremony will include the presentation of the SETI Forward Award, which encourages future scientists in their pursuit of life in the Universe, and the Carl Sagan ...