Just months after 9/11, strange messages started appearing across U.S. military computers: “Your security system is crap.” ...

Deep inside one of the harshest environments on Earth, survival becomes a minute-by-minute challenge. Poisonous gases, boiling acid pools, razor-sharp salt formations and relentless heat turn every ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Kachka: So Barthes analyzes the spectacle, and Canetti gets into the spectator’s head.

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...