scientists have formed an educated consensus that the heliosphere is not round-shaped but is shaped like an oblong (a distorted spherical shape, longer than it is wide). This distorted shape is caused because of a tilted magnetic field in local

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Scientists at McGill University used the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to do a four-year study of a double-star system unlike any other known in the Universe. The system is a pair of neutron stars, both of which

Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana (USA) in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America - when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and

NASA's new space telescope powers up for its mission.

Detectives named two "persons of interest" in the investigation into the slayings of a NASA engineer and three others.

Asteroid, comet, UFO or death ray machine. Those are just some of the ideas.

United Launch Alliance has enough Delta 2 rockets for demand through 2015.

Astronauts will fly the final shuttle trip to fix Hubble Space Telescope.

Space tourist and former NFL player create sports for space.

Police arrested and charged two men in the slayings of a NASA engineer and three others.

Scientists hope to deploy a solar sail called NanoSail-D this summer.

Phoenix uses rasp to scrape ice samples, will deliver to onboard instruments.

Opportunity rover wheels closer to a cliff wall of Victoria Crater.

Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles.

Future robots may cooperatively explore alien worlds.

The comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft will fly past asteroid Steins this September.

NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander's next whiff of Martian dirt could be its last.

First MESSENGER flyby confirms volcanism, gives data on Mercury's magnetic field.

Three planets are now putting on a show as prominent evening luminaries.