Animals renowned for their outstanding night vision include owls, cats, tarsiers (a tiny primate in Southeast Asia) — and even the dung beetle. But humans? Not so much. Over time, many people suffer ...

May 8 -- Debbie Bennett's retinas stopped working 23 years ago, and suddenly, her sight abandoned her. "I was reading a book. And all of a sudden, my vision just went," Bennett told ABCNEWS' Science ...

Night blindness (nyctalopia) refers to considerable difficulty seeing in poor light conditions. Night blindness is not a condition itself but rather a symptom of other types of vision conditions.

Upon its release in 2014, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and landed on The New York Times best-seller list for 200 weeks. With such high expectations, ...

A device called LightSound is being distributed to help the blind and visually impaired experience this year’s event. By Robyn Ross This article is part of The Times’s coverage of the April 8 eclipse, ...