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• » NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

  
  

  Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been [...]




• » NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole Grazing on Asteroids

  
  

  The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids. [...]




• » NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Observations of Interstellar Matter

  
  

  NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system. [...]




• » NASA's Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets

  
  

  NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified planets and triple the number of stars known to have [...]




• » NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg Ahead of March 14 Launch

  
  

  NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from objects [...]