The two-time Oscar winner joined frequent collaborator and close friend Yorgos Lanthimos and their team from Focus Features for a Thursday press conference, their first Venice Film Festival event.

Come with me." With those words in 1980 the astronomer Carl Sagan launched "Cosmos," an epic 13-part TV series that brought science to the public like never before, and opened up all of space and ...

Celebrating the great science communicator…while being realistic about how much things have changed since the days of the Cosmos series.

Carl Sagan first became known to the general public as an authority on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and when Percy makes Sagan the central character of Lost in the Cosmos he clearly ...

(RNS) Many atheists, agnostics and humanists credit Carl Sagan and his “Cosmos” TV series with instilling in them skepticism of the supernatural and a sense of wonder about the universe. Both ...

From there, Druyan worked with Sagan on the Cosmos television show, on several of his books, and on the story that begat the movie Contact. After Sagan’s death in 1996, Druyan remained prolific.

"We took a big, big hit when we lost Carl Sagan," Seth MacFarlane, an executive producer of the new "Cosmos" reboot said during an event honoring Sagan in November 2013. "Here was a man of science ...

One of my college professors was Carl Sagan%2C who went on to host of the original%2C 13-part Cosmos series on PBS. To enter his lecture hall was to be in the presence of someone special. Soon ...

David Morrison, Carl Sagan's first doctoral student and current Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, speaks with RNS about Sagan's legacy, what it was like to be one of Sagan ...

As the new 'Cosmos' ends its season, Ann Druyan reflects on late husband Carl Sagan and her mission to revive their series.

Fox has greenlighted Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series from Family Guy creator MacFarlane and late Sagan’s original collaborators – his widow, writer/producer Ann Druyan and ...

(RNS) Many viewers may be hoping that “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” lives up to the original series created by astronomer Carl Sagan 35 years ago. But no one will watch the program, airing Sunday ...