Seyward Darby

I’m not allowed to touch the moon rocks. In the room where NASA stores the samples that Apollo astronauts brought to Earth decades ago, I peer at rocks and trays of dirt through glass. But my tour guides are firm: Nobody touches the moon rocks.

After two decades of research and development, WA 38 lands this fall. It could disrupt an entire industry. It’s an apple.

Every year, members of the Gold Prospectors Association of America pack up their RVs in search of adventure, friendship, and a bucketful of pay dirt.

What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in detention facilities inevitable.

One British man spent his adult life devoted to his favorite star. His personal collection tells us a lot about fandom—and about the life cycles of music ephemera.

Roadside lodging for motorists has a seedy reputation, but the motel is a shelter—a lifeline—for families with no place else to go

My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.

This might strike you as a wildly self-serving theory: that the epic rift tearing apart this preposterously wealthy family was the fault not of the lifelong ne’er-do-well, who’d spent four decades partying his way through a family fortune, but of his outwardly much more responsible and sober brother, who had run the family business for […]

Make a new canine friend in Maine and chances are good she’s from down south, as the dog-crazy Pine Tree State is among the most common destinations for southern rescue dogs. To understand why—and how they arrive—Kathryn Miles joined 37 very good dogs on a 1,600-mile road trip.