Did you know: Mars, the so-called Red Planet, might look spherical when viewed through a telescope or in images from space probes, but recent scientific analysis suggests it is not perfectly round ...

We have calculated the figure of equilibrium of a rapidly rotating, differentiated body to determine the shape, structure, and composition of the dwarf planet Haumea. Previous studies of Haumea’s ...

Mars may look like a sphere, but it’s actually a triaxial ellipsoid. Unlike any other rocky planet in the Solar System, it’s shaped rather like a rugby ball, but with different sizes along all three ...

We use thermal radiometry and visible photometry to constrain the size, shape, and albedo of the large Kuiper belt object Haumea. The correlation between the visible and thermal photometry ...