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The Spyder III Arctic Pro is a hand-held laser that looks remarkably like a lightsaber. That wouldn't be a problem, if it weren't almost as much of a menace as the fictional weapon. And with lasers getting rapidly more powerful and less expensive, regulation is falling behind.

President Obama's overhauled aerospace plan will mothball NASA's space shuttle program and put the future of human space travel squarely in the hands of private companies. The free-market approach to designing and operating spacecraft will mean big business for a handful of companies.

President Obama's plan to scrap the Constellation space program designed to send U.S. astronauts to the moon is being blasted by senators from states with heavy space industries. The policy shift reignites questions about the mission of the U.S. space program and the role of private companies in that effort.

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Need a ride to space, anyone? NASA plans to sell its fleet of space shuttles this fall, when the 30-year-old shuttles are retired in favor of a newer spacecraft program. But little buyer interest has forced them to drop the price from $40 million each to $28.8 million.

Looks like that Climategate thing is about to kick into high gear again. Refuting the claims of global-warning critics, the World Meteorological Organization today released findings showing that the past decade was the hottest recorded in the 150 years that scientists have collected global...

It's been mocked, praised, even called evil, and now Australian wine maker, Yellow Tail, is giving it a try. Crowdsourcing, or throwing out a task or problem usually handled by one person (typically an employee) to the public, has been bashed for exploiting workers and disrupting the...

Despite cost overruns totaling nearly $1.1 billion in nine of its flagship projects, NASA will see its 2010 fiscal year budget increase to $18.7 billion. Combined with the $1 billion NASA got from the new stimulus package, that's $2.4 billion more than the space agency received in 2008. But there...

At 7:30 EST on Friday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deliberately crashed two orbiting probes into Cabeus, a large crater near the south pole of the moon. This program, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, was designed to determine if the lunar...

Miles O'Brien was having a bad day. On Monday, the laid-off CNN correspondent and former host of the network's morning show found himself in the anchor chair for the live broadcast of the space shuttle launch over on SpaceFlightNow.com, which wouldn't have been a problem necessarily, except that...