July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
..., evolving and self-aware, in the sense that humans are self-aware and part of the universe. Carl Sagan said, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself,” and this means humanity expanding into the...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... on a SETI scientist who finds evidence of alien life. The book on which the film is based was written by Carl Sagan. About the author Savannah Mandel’s love of science fiction and interest in human culture drove her to combine...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
..., this doesn’t diminish the beautiful narrative seen in the aptly named Contact (1997), inspired by the late Carl Sagan, which takes a circumspect and even intimate look at how a formal ‘close encounter of the third kind’ might...
15 August 2016
Was early Mars warmed by cirrus cloud cover?
... with cloud coverage to stabilise the climate, two researchers based at prominent astrobiology institutes including the Carl Sagan Institute, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center and NASA Astrobiology Institute Virtual Planetary Laboratory, have...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... GJ 357 d might succumb too, in an additional paper completed by Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute and a member of the TESS science team, along with doctoral candidate Jack Madden and...
09 March 2020
Organic molecules found on Mars could be consistent with early life, says study
... a less destructive method for analysing molecules. Even then, that might not be enough says Schulze‑Makuch. “As Carl Sagan said ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think the proof will really require that we actually send...
