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New Wicked Lasers' S3 Krypton laser can blind even astronauts (VIDEO)
Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Shanghai-based Company that sells high-powered portable lasers, Wicked Lasers presents its new amazingly powerful product. As one of the most popular laser companies, Wicked Lasers again will win laser...
Moons like Earth's could be more common than we thought
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About one in 10 rocky planets around stars like our Sun may host a moon proportionally as large as Earth's, researchers say. Our Moon is disproportionately large - more than a quarter of Earth's diameter - a situation once thought to be rare. Using...
Rocky exoplanet milestone in hunt for Earth-like worlds
Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet outside our Solar System, and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth. Measurements of unprecedented precision have shown that the planet, Kepler 10b, has a diameter 1.4 times that of Earth, and...
UK tech to aid private space shot
UK technology could aid a US company's ambitions to send spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit. Bigelow Aerospace's plans include telescopes that could be sent into deep space. The UK's Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) has signed a memorandum of understanding...
Early partial solar eclipse for 2011
Tuesday witnessed the first partial solar eclipse of 2011. People standing across a great swathe of the Earth's surface saw the Moon take a big bite out of the Sun. For north Africa and much of Europe, the event began at sunrise, whereas in central...
Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases...
Voyager near Solar System's edge
Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, has reached a new milestone in its quest to leave the Solar System. Now 17.4bn km (10.8bn miles) from home, the veteran probe has detected a distinct change in the flow of particles that surround it...
Commercial 'Dragon' spacecraft makes history
The Dragon spacecraft made history Wednesday when it became the first commercially made space capsule to ever launch into orbit, circle the world, and successfully re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. NASA's administrator heralded the achievement as a ...
Asteroid probe aimed toward Earth
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa, which was designed to return samples from an asteroid, has been placed on course for a landing in Australia. The spacecraft is returning home from its 2005 visit to the asteroid Itokawa Hayabusa has achieved a crucial...
Hubble's amazing view of the Cosmos in a new 3D film (video)
By Penelope Poulou Film offers first glimpse of space telescope's breathtaking deep space images in IMAX 3D In the new film, "IMAX: Hubble 3D," an IMAX 3D camera chronicles the efforts of seven astronauts aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis...
