Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren’t spherical?
Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough mass to produce the gravity required to pull themselves into a spherical shape.
“Actually, one of the specifications for being a planet is, they have enough mass that makes them round,” Susana Barros, a senior researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal, told Live Science.
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