Most bay scallops are hermaphrodites – they have both male and female sex organs – while sea scallops have separate sexes.

Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

Oman on Wednesday banned the import of bottled water from Iran after the deaths of two people who drank from a contaminated batch. An expat woman died on Monday, the Royal Oman Police said, and an ...

A paper from NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon should ...

Uranus’ moon Ariel may look like a frozen, airless world today, but new research suggests that beneath its icy crust, it may once have held an ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep. That ...

This peculiar behavior has long fascinated scientists, particularly after NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986. The ...

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A t ...