Then there's Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is famously shaped like a rubber duck.Comets come in weird shapes not just because of their size but also because they're made mostly of ice ...

The moonlets' weird shapes have puzzled astronomers, including John Wimarsson, a graduate student at the University of Bern in Switzerland and the new study's lead author.

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Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Mars ...

5) The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold. Why It’s Weird: This is a novel about time travel, and as such it comes with all the expected weirdnesses – time paradoxes, alternate realities ...

Deciphering the Weird, Wonderful Genetic Diversity of Leaf Shapes Researchers craft a new model for plant development after studying the genetics of carnivorous plants’ cup-shaped traps ...

Blue countries represent the locations of 93 percent of studies published in Psychological Science in 2017. Dark blue is U.S., blue is Anglophone colonies with a European descent majority, light ...

Generations before, the aliens of early science fiction were considerably more fantastical – bloodcurdling octopus-beings, intelligent swarms of insect-creatures and monstrous reptiles. Emmanuel ...

Comets come in weird shapes not just because of their size but also because they're made ... JoAnna is also a science cartoonist and has published comics with Gizmodo, NASA, Science News for ...