By Kenneth Chang When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees a sea of blackness. The sun never...

By Carl Zimmer For generations, physicists have puzzled over life. Their theories about matter and energy have helped them understand how...

By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jin Yu Young Lee Saedol was the finest Go player of his generation when he suffered a decisive loss, defeated...

Mike Bettwy, operations chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, in Boulder,...

By Raymond Zhong One of North America’s largest areas of interconnected glaciers is melting twice as quickly as it did before 2010, a...

By Katrina Miller China brought a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth, achieving the latest success in...

By Rachel Nuwer Hurricane Maria caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean, not only for people but also for wildlife. Five years...