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 ...

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid 2024 YR4, which could hit the moon. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid ...

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 ...

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 ...

This machine punches the nails from a rod, which has been previously rolled to a peculiar shape, to produce a number of partly-formed nail blanks, of which several are arranged side by side ...

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 ...

This turned out to be due to the cells’ capacity to continuously change their peculiar shape. “It has been known for a long time that capillary lymphatic endothelial cells have a lobate shape ...

It wasn’t until developmental biologist Jennifer McKey, then at Duke University, was imaging mouse ovaries in their entirety that she noticed a peculiar shape curving at the bottom of the ovary ...