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Jack Rose helped revive and reset acoustic guitar music — a new compilation pays tribute to the artist, who died 10 years ago today. Plus, a playlist of 2019's phenomenal crop of guitar records.

NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe.

You voted! We counted! Here are the results of our 2015 Listener Poll for the year's best albums.

Sugarland's first album in eight years sees the country duo not only mount a comeback but address social crises in a grounded, unpretentious way.

The results are in! St. Vincent's self-titled album was by far the most popular record in our listener poll for the best music of 2014. On this week's show, we count down the Top 25.

This week on Alt.Latino, we travel throughout the Latin world to find 10 great bands that seamlessly stitch traditional Latin music with new and unexpected sounds.

Students and listeners from across the state send in their reports.

Throughout recorded history, philosophers have made light of death — in some cases, they've even taught us to embrace it. Author Simon Critchley has compiled the thoughts of more than 190 philosophers on the subject of death in The Book of Dead Philosophers.

McBryde mixes passionate music with novelistic details on a concept album about the inhabitants of a small rural town, named after the songwriter Dennis Linde.

Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla form a banjo-wielding supergroup dedicated to the history of both string-band music and black women in America.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to the ranch-hand turned songwriter. He comes from a long line of Wyoming homesteaders and studied agroecology before becoming a country singer.

John Latimer's official weekly assessment of nature.

The docuseries seems to be a pointed riposte to the more freewheeling scripted drama about the Lakers on HBO.

Forty-five years after the debut of Terry Riley's IN C, the composer and his son, guitarist Gyan Riley, talk about performing the minimalist classic together.

At issue is whether schools may punish students for speech that occurs online and off-campus but may affect school order. The case is the biggest test of student speech rights since 1969.

In the past couple of years, computing, storage and bandwidth capacity have become so cheap that it's altered the scale of what's possible in terms of collecting and analyzing data at every turn. It's a tectonic shift that will continue to affect many things we do for decades to come, one expert says.

John Latimer's official weekly assessment of nature.

What's the risk of contracting a surprising virus from Fido or Kitty? It's not a frivolous question, as one virologist explains. And there's another question: Can you give a virus to your pet?

More than three years after his tweet, the U.S. government has formally declassified the image from one of its most powerful spy satellites.

Film director Noah Baumbach speaks with NPR's Steven Inskeep about his latest film, "White Noise," based on the 1985 Don DeLillo novel of the same name