08.15.11 - Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space.
08.10.11 - What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space?
07.20.11 - Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
06.15.11 - Has the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, belongs to the cosmos.
05.25.11 - Astronomers are picking through the wreckage of galactic collisions to better understand the destruction, and the creation of new stars.
04.04.11 - Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are experiencing a time delay: knots of gas and dust from one jet blast off four-and-a-half years later than identical knots from the other jet.
03.03.11 - A galactic sunflower shows off its infrared colors in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
11.24.10 - Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting two massive islands of galaxies.
10.12.10 - A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang.
09.23.10 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data reveal a newly found phenomenon that offers insight into cores of star-forming regions.
09.02.10 - New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions.
08.18.10 - Astronomers have experienced the galactic equivalent of discovering pictures of a mild-mannered grandmother partying as a wild youth.
08.05.10 - A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories.
05.26.10 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and radio telescopes are probing the structure of our Milky Way galaxy.
02.18.10 - Four NASA space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer and Swift- help probe a dinosaur-like find of galactic proportions.
01.29.10 - Astronomers using several telescopes, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered what appears to be the coolest star-like body known.
01.06.10 - Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on sun-like stars.
01.05.10 - For almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own eyes as it seemed to disappear into the night sky, slowly fading before coming back to life again.
01.05.10 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from Earth.
08.05.09 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.