Among these, some fish stand out not just for their colors but also for their unusual shapes. These distinctive forms often ...

The unusual shapes of the tiny asteroids Dimorphos and Selam have perplexed astronomers for years, but a new study finally explains how they got so strange. It also suggests these bizarrely shaped ...

Typically, moonlet asteroids adopt prolate shapes, resembling upright, blunt-ended footballs as they orbit their usually top-shaped parent asteroids. However, some moonlets display more unusual ...

Photographer and drone pilot Pio Andrea Peri noticed his hometown’s unusual shape on Google Earth and decided to use his drone to see if it was true. He flew his drone as high as he could above ...

The barred spiral galaxy MCG+07-07-072 has thin, loosely wound arms emerging from the ends of its barred core, creating a rather unusual ring shape. A galaxy's outstretched arms form a nearly ...

On the slightly more rational side, people thought it might be from a map, with some suggesting it was the shape of Finland. Some of the guesses for this unusual shape included a whale with a ...

Even after being shaken again and again, the self-shaping liquid returned to the same unusual structure. That shape was more than just surprising—it appeared to defy the usual rules. According ...

It had no bright dust tail, like most comets, and had a peculiar shape – something between a cigar and a pancake. But the object also had a weird orbit: It accelerated away from the sun in a ...