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Scientists have found many planets orbiting distant stars, but so far no proof that any have moons. Now, researchers have detected signs of a large exomoon orbiting a Jupiter-like world.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Rennie, the Beijing Bureau chief for The Economist, about the latest escalation in tensions between Taiwan and China.

A spokesman for the junta said soldiers took over because President Roch Marc Christian Kabore could not manage the country's deteriorating security situation.

A mass shooting hit the town of Winnetka, Ill., 34 years ago. Phil Andrew survived, and that experience shaped his path as a special agent for the FBI and lifelong gun control advocate.

The controversial Saudi Arabian-backed golf series known as LIV plays its first tournament in the U.S. this week. The breakaway series is already shaking up the golf world.

A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target.

The first moon landing was broadcast around the world. But very few people saw the best-quality tape -- and they could be the only ones to see this footage if the original tapes are not found. A group of retirees has made it their mission to search for the missing Apollo 11 tapes.

President Bush talks with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House in an effort to end the stalemate over the immigration bill. The meeting may have given new life to an immigration bill that appeared to be stalled two weeks ago. Republicans, however, remain divided over the bill.

During famine, children technically don't starve to death, they die from disease. In Niger, the organizers behind an educational campaign on disease prevention -- aimed at mothers -- hopes it will lessen the toll of hunger crises.

A "senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion" of Iraq tells The Washington Post that U.S. expectations in Iraq were "never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground." Robert Siegel talks with James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, who has written extensively on Iraq.