The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

Another month of stargazing is here, with celestial highlights like fun planetary pairings, the full Snow Moon, and a chance to see a distant galaxy with a black hole at its heart. While it might ...

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Astronomers with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) identified more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy located a staggering 6.5 billion light-years away from our Milky Way. This historic ...

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Regina Barber and Geoff Brumfiel of Short Wave about a new moon mission, a global map of fishing ships, and mysterious rings of radio waves. It is time for our ...