Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

They’re less dense than cotton candy, and they will help astrophysicists better understand the most unusual ways giant planets can form.

It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues into how life may have arisen on Earth.

Severe, hard-to-control blazes in densely populated areas like Los Angeles drove the year’s record losses.