Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

And scientific evidence collected over centuries shows the Earth isn't flat – it's an oblate sphere. The Instagram post’s flat Earth claim rests on the idea that meteors, also known as ...

You couldn’t tell the Earth was a sphere even if you hiked to the top ... It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider around the equator ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

Not quite a sphere Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid.