Earth is often described as a circle or an oval, but it is neither. As the planet spins more than 1,000 miles per hour at the equator, it develops a slight bulge around its middle. The result is what ...
Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare lemon-shaped planet called PSR J2322-2650b orbiting a city-size star. Found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the Jupiter-size world is stretched by extreme ...
Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...