Topic: Keele University

NASA telescope detects massive cloud of 'buckyballs' hurtling through space (+video)

Space carbon spheres, known as buckyballs have recently been discovered by NASA astronomers. Scientists compare these tiny particle clouds to soccer balls, or oranges in a crate.

R136a1 is the most massive star discovered so far

R136a1, hundreds of times the mass of our sun and millions of times brighter, was spotted in a star-making nebula some 22,000 light-years away.

Kiss this planet goodbye! (No, not Earth)

Oops! This planet is orbiting in the wrong direction