Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with a highly oblong orbit that experiences wild temperature swings — and it may be ...

Unless you're on the fringes, it's taken for granted that Earth is round, but if you play with the numbers just right, other ...

From a world shaped like a giant donut to a planet with the sharp edges of a perfect cube, changing the shape of Earth would dramatically alter how we live, move, breathe, and survive. While most of ...

An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...