Webb Telescope Spots Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen

Nobody knows exactly when the 13.8-billion-year-old universe first switched on its stellar lights, but the best guess for the emergence of the earliest stars and galaxies is…

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There Will Be a Super Worm Moon on the Spring Equinox. Here’s How to See It

Another month, another “supermoon”. Tonight, the “super worm moon”—the third supermoon of 2019 to be exact— will light up the sky in all its slightly-larger-than-usual glory. What…

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Shots Heard Round the World

Just before 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, became one of the first…

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