Sweet new research suggests that newly forming planets may have a flattened shape similar to that of a popular British candy. A team of researchers from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in ...

A groundbreaking study led by astrophysicists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) discovered that young planets are not the perfect spheres the scientific community previously considered.

Planetary shape is primarily determined by gravity, resulting in an approximately spherical form for bodies of sufficient mass. Deviations from perfect sphericity exist due to factors such as rotation ...

Flat-Earthers might have been right all along – they were just a few billion years late. Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) have found that newly formed planets might take on a ...

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 ...

Earth's shape is an oblate spheroid, slightly bulging at the equator due to its rotation, resulting in a significant difference in distance from the Earth's center between the equator and poles. This ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as a celestial body that orbits the sun, is massive enough that gravity has forced it into a spherical shape, and has cleared away other objects ...

When they tried to figure out how to define a planet, one of the criteria that astronomers settled on was whether its body was spherical, instead of irregular. Indeed, the fact that Pluto is spherical ...

'We had always assumed that they were spherical. We were very surprised that they turned out to be oblate spheroids, pretty similar to Smarties!' When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...