Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...