F or most of human history, Earth has been known as the “Pale Blue Dot,” a term popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan when referring to the iconic 1990 image taken by Voyager 1. But for ...

This year is the 30 th anniversary of the Pale Blue Dot, the renowned photo of our planet taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a great distance. Featuring Earth as a tiny dot against the vast ...

Earth's oceans were once green, according to a new study. Carl Sagan, the host of the popular TV show Cosmos, once described Earth as a 'pale blue dot' when explaining an image taken by Voyager 1.

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 ...