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

Dr Dimitris Stamatellos, co-author of the paper, says: 'We were very surprised that they turned out to be oblate ... are ...

Earth today is still classed as an oblate sphere, being slightly flatter at the poles and larger at the equator. But the simulations suggest rocky planets, such as Earth, start out life far more ...

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 ...

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.