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Dust – often thought of as an impediment to lunar exploration – could be put to good use to build giant telescopes on the Moon – perhaps some large enough to fill entire craters, says a team of US researchers.
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Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic “stuff” called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.
made popular Aug 31 2008
Mortal Kombat will never get old, and I thank God for that, as the new title will continue to provide all the things you need to take the stress and anger out on...
made popular Aug 27 2008
A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.
The most powerful...
made popular Aug 9 2008
The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.
made popular Aug 8 2008
Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
made popular Jul 25 2008
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Dayana Mendoza put a promising modeling career on hold to go for _ and win _ the Miss Universe crown.”Being a model is just great. You show a brand, a beautiful...
made popular Jul 22 2008
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Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe.The Democratic presidential contender exercises...
made popular Jul 17 2008
Get anything done yesterday? Because a galaxy at the edge of the known universe pumped out ten entire stars. Yes, stars, the great big sky-dominating fusion reactors...
made popular Jul 16 2008
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Miss USA has learned a simple lesson from her humiliating tumble during the Miss Universe pageant _ the second year in a row the American contestant has taken a...
made popular Jul 14 2008
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Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008.Mendoza and three other Latin Americans women made the final five at Sunday’s contest.The four...
made popular Jul 14 2008
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The 2008 Miss Universe contest has begun, with 80 of the world’s most beautiful women competing to win one of the pageant world’s most coveted crowns.The...
made popular Jul 14 2008
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Behind all the hugs and smiles, the 80 Miss Universe contestants are engaged in a fierce competition. But two contestants with perhaps the greatest reason for...
made popular Jul 13 2008
Universe Sandbox is an interactive space simulation that enables the users to create the whole of an astronomical universe of their own. Here they can...
made popular Jul 1 2008
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) camera will map 300 million galaxies using the Blanco 4-meter telescope - a large telescope with new advanced optics at Chile’s Cerro...
made popular Jun 28 2008
One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject,...
made popular Jun 26 2008
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Jerry Springer and Melanie Brown will co-host the 2008 Miss Universe pageant, which will air live from Nha Trang, Vietnam, on July 13.Springer, 64, is host of...
made popular Jun 25 2008
The unusual properties of frozen water may have been the ticket that made life possible.
made popular Jun 23 2008
Black holes are the most fascinating features of space time yet discovered, regions where mass is compacted so densely that the values literally go off the scales and...
made popular Jun 11 2008
NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet yesterday and has started sending first pictures of the unexplored region. This flight...
made popular May 27 2008
New images taken by the Hubble space telescope show galaxies spinning, sliding and smashing into each nother, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new...
made popular Apr 25 2008
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Star gazing is my hobby and space my passion. I often go through the Internet to surf for great telescopes which allow me to have a closer look at the stars and other...
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Ground based gamma-ray telescopes are providing key observations to explore the non-thermal universe. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is observing mainly...
made popular Nov 28 2006
Amateur astronomy, often called back yard astronomy, is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing the celestial objects. Amateur telescopes come in many shapes and...
made popular Feb 8 2006
Asteroids have been showering the Earth with damages for long. So, NASA thought of searching for these Earth-threatening celestial bodies as small as 140 meters. It has...
made popular Dec 24 2005
Mysterious force has remained constant over the life of the universe. It refused to fade away. The first results from an international effort to probe the nature of...
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Scientists have been scanning across the outer Universe in search of extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly half a century. All have been disappointing them as more...
made popular Nov 24 2005
Strudel reports that the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - began a study of ways to deflect Near Earth objects (NEOs) like asteroids. They...
made popular Nov 19 2005
The NASA Swift satellite has received a “Best of What’s New” award from Popular Science magazine in the aviation-and-space category. Penn State...
made popular Nov 15 2005
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