Astronomers described the puffy nebula, which is located in a small patch of sky being monitored closely by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope, as resembling a soccer ball in deep space.

151; -- Few athletes get the chance to play soccer at the World Cup, but even fewer get a chance to play the game in outer-space ... punting the ball around the International Space Station ...

Soccer ball-shaped carbon molecules first discovered on Earth in the 1980s have been detected in outer space. An artist's concept of the planetary nebula Tc 1, where the buckyballs were found.

The soccer ball was aboard the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger in 1986. — -- A soccer ball that was taken aboard NASA's ill-fated space shuttle Challenger finally made it into space last ...

"like a soccer ball," NASA announced in a statement today (Feb. 22). Astronomers spotted vast quantities of the tiny space balls, enough to create 10,000 Mount Everests, circling a pair of stars ...

When Ellison Onizuka made his second flight as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle Challenger in 1986, one of the personal effects he carried with him was a soccer ball signed by members ...