Researchers say that young planets — or protoplanets — are flattened structures called oblate spheroids after they form ...

Utilizing advanced computer simulations, researchers examined the thermal conditions within protostellar disks, revealing that emerging protoplanets take on the shape of oblate spheroids ...

Large planets like Jupiter that form far away from their host stars may start forming as flattened disks similar to a fluffy pancake rather than as spherical structures, according to a new study.

it is observed that e.g. the absorption of light for particles of the same volume and the same ratio of the diameter of the particle as viewed from above and its height is much larger for truncated ...