Planets are spherical, and the International Astronomical Union's attempt to make this part of their definition has merit. There was once a prissy British civil servant who, when he came across a ...

Update Aug. 17: Astronomers Sharply Divided on New Planet Definition The tally of planets in our solar system would jump instantly to a dozen under a highly controversial new definition proposed by ...

A proposed planet definition – a planet is a sub-stellar mass body that has never undergone nuclear fusion and that has sufficient self-gravitation to assume a spheroidal shape adequately described by ...

Okay, so we could pretty much figure out that JVC's breath sphere speaker wasn't exactly the roundest thing we'd ever seen, but we can't say we've really ever given much thought to how round / not ...

We're still waiting for someone to create a proper Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak, but in the meantime researchers have used nanoparticles to 'cloak' the shape of an object. The work was done by ...

Video taken aboard a US Navy ship off the coast of San Diego shows a mysterious, spherical object flying in the air before disappearing into the ocean, reports said Friday. The footage is the source ...