NASA Administrator Bill Nelson swore in Makenzie Lystrup as director of Goddard Space Flight Center on April 6. Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director ...

Carl Sagan, the astronomer ... That's us," wrote Sagan in his book "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" (1994). Sagan emphasized the responsibility to treat the rest of the ...

took her oath on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 book Pale Blue Dot instead of the conventional practice of using the Bible. While many officeholders across the country have placed their hands on ...

In that moment, all of humanity was captured in a ghostly fragment of a pixel swimming through an unrelenting sea of darkness — a "Pale Blue Dot" lost in a void. Carl Sagan — the astronomer ...