11+ hour, 36+ min ago  (156+ words) Artistic representation of WASP-94 A b, a gas giant. Hannah Robbins/Johns Hopkins University hide caption For many astronomers and astrophysicists there are two distinct, important periods: before the James Webb Space Telescope " and after. It has powered many scientific…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (347+ words) Oklahoma now has its first official "dark sky park" where people get a chance to look at the stars without light pollution. Oklahoma now has an internationally recognized dark sky park. That's an area that ensures the protection of the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (715+ words) was a dream assignment for one NPR science correspondent. After NASA's glory days of putting astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and '70s, its crew stayed closer to home. That all changed earlier this month with the Artemis II mission, and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (212+ words) Earth didn't always have a moon. In the beginning of the solar system, when the planets were still forming, something happened that would change Earth's night sky forever: The Moon was created! How did it happen? This episode, co-host Regina…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (316+ words) Former NASA chief of staff Bale Dalton talks about the work that went into the Artemis mission plan and what to watch for on the journey. The Artemis II's Orion capsule is on its way to the moon. Its crew…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (126+ words) NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3 I/ATLAS. The solar system's third interstellar visitor, 3 I/ATLAS, is…...