Planets, the eight celestial bodies orbiting our sun, are spherical. Exoplanets, the many other celestial bodies orbiting many other suns, are also spherical. At least that's what scientists thought ...

A team of astronomers studying distant exoplanets found one that seems to be shaped like a football—or a rugby ball, depending on your frame of reference—rather than the usual sphere. The team ...

A planet unlike any other was recently discovered by scientists, and rather than being round, its shape can best be compared to something ranging from an egg to a rugby football. The exoplanet ...

Planets are all globes, right? Wrong. If they are like WASP-103b, then they are far from the perfect orbs we see in our mind’s eyes — rather, a new discovery reveals some planets might look more like ...