New World Journal constructs each volume around a single aesthetic world, and for its inaugural Discovery Essays collection that world is the stars. The call is deliberately expansive: essays may approach the subject through astronomy, exploration, navigation, history, mythology, geography, travel, science, religion, or personal experience. The journal's framing suggests a curatorial interest in the night sky as a destination, a navigational instrument, a historical force, a scientific problem, a cultural inheritance, or the quiet backdrop against which a life unfolds. The editors indicate the subject need not be astronomy itself. A night at an observatory, a desert crossing beneath unfamiliar constellations, celestial navigation at sea, the history of a telescope or star chart, an expedition shaped by the night sky, a journey to a dark-sky region, the mythology of a constellation, the people who study distant worlds, or a single encounter with the night sky that reoriented one's sense of place—these are the registers in which the volume is conceived. The scope is international and transhistorical, and the journal treats the essay as a form capable of holding scientific, historical, and personal modes at once. This is a no-fee submission with a fixed deadline of December 31, 2026. No prize or payment is specified in the provided materials, and no submission link or materials list is included. Writers should consult the journal directly for submission mechanics. What the call makes clear is its editorial disposition: it rewards essays with a genuine world behind them—research, travel, observation, or lived experience—rather than thematic gestures toward the celestial.