Over half of all cell phone owners use their device to surf the Internet, according to a new survey out by Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey found that 17 percent of cell phone owners do most of their online browsing through their phone, rather than a computer.The rise of Internet use on cell phones has been clear to the public, and Pew said that the rise has jumped in the past three years 24 percentage points

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA on Wednesday launched its newest X-ray space telescope on a mission to shine a light on black holes and other hard-to-see objects lurking in the Milky Way and other galaxies.Mission controllers clapped after receiving a signal from the telescope that it had reached orbit 350 miles above Earth.”It’s a terrific day,” assistant launch director Tim Dunn said.NASA decided to air-launch the $170 million mission, instead of rocketing off from a launch pad, because it was cheaper. The telescope was boosted into orbit by a Pegasus rocket released from a carrier aircraft that took off from the remote Kwajalein Atoll, a horseshoe-shaped Pacific island halfway between Hawaii and Australia.After free-falling for several seconds, the rocket ignited its engines and climbed to space. Minutes later, the telescope separated from the rocket and unfurled its solar panels as it circled 350 miles above the Earth.The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar for short, focuses high-energy X-rays to peer through gas and dust in search of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies, remnants of exploded stars and other exotic celestial objects.While black holes are invisible, the region around them gives off telltale X-rays