On Jan. 25, 1986, the Voyager 2 robot probe entered the Uranus system and reported a procession of wonders. The encounter lasted only a few hours, but the data faithfully relayed back to Earth have ...

And, now, the master audio behind the record can be yours for somewhere between $400,000 – $600,000. That's quite a lot for what's essentially a tape reel of a seemingly random selection of songs and ...

a set of reel-to-reel tapes with the labels "NASA reel 1 side 1" and "reel 2 side 3" The two reels are not much to look at and the quality of their audio recordings, while described to be "excellent," ...

A truly historic Space Age recording is up for auction as the personal copy of the master tapes belonging to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for the crafting of the Golden Record that flew on Voyager 1 and ...

This is a love story. And, oddly enough, it starts with an interstellar space mission and a golden record. Toward the end of the summer of '77, NASA launched two spacecraft as part of the Voyager ...

One of the most iconic pieces of space exploration history is up for auction. When NASA’s twin Voyager probes lifted off to explore the solar system just weeks apart in 1977, they carried identical ...

(The Conversation) — A professor of religion and science explains different views on immortality, from the religious perspective of President Jimmy Carter to the scientific, secular take of Carl Sagan ...

In the wake of NASA’s exciting Voyager 2 discoveries, we honor the birthday of one of society’s most prominent astronomy figures: Carl Sagan. In addition to his role as a worldwide leader of ...

Sagan, C. For future times and beings.--Drake, F. D. The foundations of the Voyager record.--Lomberg, J. Pictures of Earth.--Sagan, L. S. A Voyager's greetings ...

"The undertaking of the Golden Record reflects the incredible optimism, fascination and humility when faced with the great unknown of the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The Golden Records were built to last a billion years in the environment of space, but in a recent analysis of the paths and perils these explorers may face, astronomers calculated that they could ...