The shape of the universe has been puzzling scientists for decades, and some new theories suggest it might not be […] ...

Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the Milky Way galaxy — and it's certainly none of these things.

Isotopes with magic numbers of protons and neutrons usually have spherical shapes in the ground state. However, minor energy fluctuations can occasionally cause the same nucleus to adopt a ...