Q: Several months ago, my right eye began to be bothered by “little critters” flying through the air; when I tried to brush ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...

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 ...

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

Researchers have created a polymer "Chinese lantern" that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting ...

Researchers have created a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can snap into over a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by ...