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 ...

What makes it especially interesting is its unusual, disc-like shape, similar to a hockey puck, and its rapid spin, completing a full rotation every 20 minutes. One of the most surprising ...

Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...

A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on his ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks came away with a big series win over the Milwaukee Brewers, taking two of three at home despite being outscored 13-10 overall and leading for a mere three total innings. Such ...

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Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

In 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity spotted similar strange spheres, so-called "Martian Blueberries", and since ...

Some spheres even possessed tiny pinholes. Scientists are stunned by what geological process could produce these strange shapes. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the "St. Pauls ...