In the first, they designed a simple habitat structure that could change its shape and stiffness. Future space explorers could deploy the same kind of material to build a variety of habitat modules.

Scientists call the region of space influenced by the sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don't know much about its shape News By Sarah A. Spitzer published July 14, 2024 ...

The individual modules of the Mori3 robot are triangular in shape. The modules easily join together to create polygons of different sizes and configurations in a process known as polygon meshing.

In a 2D the answer is two, and a 3D space can be tiled in shapes that have no corners at all, called soft cells. These shapes can be made in a few different ways, and some are shown here.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has snapped an incredible image of the largest star-forming region within the Small Magellanic Cloud. VIEW GALLERY - 2 Jak Connor Tech and Science Editor ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.