It's not often that humans are lucky enough to spot two neutron stars colliding, with the first ever collision observed only a few years ago in 2017. Now scientists have taken a closer look at that ...

Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun ...

Ever wondered why all matter in our galaxy is often portrayed as a sphere? That’s because gravity pulls matter equally from all sides towards the center, where there’s more gravitational force. The ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story. Scientists using radio wavelength data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) spotted a strangely symmetrical sphere located thousands of ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled. In data collected by a powerful radio telescope, astronomers have found what appears to ...

Have you ever noticed that everything in space is a sphere? The Sun, the Earth, the Moon and the other planets and their moons… all spheres. Except for the stuff which isn’t spheres. What’s going on?

This is a refraction of an image of Einstein in the most perfect sphere ever made. The flaws on this quartz sphere are no bigger than forty atoms. It, and other spheres like it, have been sent to ...

Much has been made over the development of a rounder soccer ball for use in this year's World Cup. But Stanford math professor Keith Devlin tells Scott Simon the quest for a perfect sphere remains a ...