Space
New Wicked Lasers' S3 Krypton laser can blind even astronauts (VIDEO)
September 06, 2011Elena 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...
Telescope CoRoT discovered ten exoplanets(photo)
June 20, 2011Mariana Puzderi/ Chișinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Space telescope CoRoT discovered ten new exoplanets, says "Kompyulenta" referring to the conference on the work of the telescope. The total number of planets detected by the 27-centimeter...
Endeavour space shuttle makes last touch-down
June 01, 2011Space shuttle Endeavour has brought its 19-year operational career to a close with a textbook landing in Florida. The vehicle swept into a night-time touch-down at the Kennedy Space Center after a successful trip to the International Space Station (ISS...
Shuttle Endeavour launches one last time
May 16, 2011The US space shuttle Endeavour has launched on its final mission. Its thunderous rise into a bright morning sky over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. Among them was Endeavour commander Mark Kelly...
SpaceX to launch huge new rocket
April 06, 2011The Californian SpaceX company says it plans to launch the most powerful rocket since the Apollo era in 2013. The Falcon 9-Heavy is a beefed up version of the vehicle the firm will soon use to send a robotic cargo ship to the space station. The new...
U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery on its final flight
February 25, 2011The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has thundered into orbit on its final flight to carry supplies to the International Space Station. NASA's oldest shuttle in a fleet of three space vehicles was launched Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral...
Mobile phone to blast into orbit
January 24, 2011British engineers are planning to put a mobile phone in space. The team at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford want to see if the sophisticated capabilities in today's phones will function in the most challenging environment known...
Searching for life in outer space
November 30, 2010Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. For the last 50 years, scientists and astronomers...
South Korean rocket launch delayed
June 09, 2010South Korea has delayed the launch of a rocket to put a satellite into space because of fire safety problems, officials say. Controllers had planned to launch the Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 (KSLV-1) between 1630 and 1840 (0730-0940GMT) from the Naro...
Asteroid probe aimed toward Earth
June 07, 2010The 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...