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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US energy giant General Electric announced a 49-percent drop in second-quarter net profit on Friday to 2.68 billion dollars. "We are executing through the recession by aggressively controlling costs and driving working capital improvements while continuing to invest for...

BASRA, Iraq (AFP) – The trade union representing workers of Iraq's state-owned Southern Oil Company (SOC) threatened on Thursday to prevent exploitation of one of Iraq's biggest oil fields by energy giants BP and CNPC. Baghdad last month accepted an offer from British energy firm BP and its...

Gas giant planets that migrated early in the history of the solar system could have violently knocked some of the asteroid belt's denizens into their current orbits, according to a new study that aims to solve a number of enduring space rock mysteries. The research, which uses a theory of the...

Quantcast Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer posted: 24 June 2008 06:47 am ET Buzz up! Add to delicious del.icio.us Digg It! Digg It! Save to Newsvine Newsvine Add to reddit reddit Comments (81) | Recommend (3) This artist's impression shows the newly...

X-ray data show that a significant source of power within these colossal structures is from growing supermassive black holes partially obscured by dense layers of dust and gas. The "coming of age" of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed, thanks to new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray...

Saturn's Rings: As Saturn travels around the Sun, we see its majestic ring system from different angles. These images were taken with the Hubble Space Telescope from the year 1996 (bottom left) to 2000 (top right). Notice how thin the rings are! They are 300,000 km across, and only a kilometer...

BANDUNG, Indonesia – Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian cousin. The prehistoric elephant is believed to...

LAGOS (AFP) – Nigerian rebels Sunday claimed three attacks in one day against Royal Dutch Shell's facilities as part of a campaign to cripple Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in a statement it had "pounded" a Shell...

David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, also known as "ZBig" among insiders. The Trilateral Commission (click here for membership list), a semi-secret society, officially founded in June 1973[3] by David Rockefeller (Illuminati) and Zbigniew Brzezinski, "ZBig", (Illuminati and Barack Obama's...

The Secret Societies have been present in the history of man for a very long time. It all started thousands of years ago with the "Brotherhood of the Snake", a secret society that goes back all the way to the time of Garden of Eden. The Illuminati consider Lucifer being their God and the Old...

In order to know what the largest star in the universe is we would have had to look at all the stars. We haven't come close to that - we haven't even looked at all the stars in our galaxy. There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and about as many galaxies in the observable universe so...

The Sun is an average-sized star. The biggest stars are more than 100 times as massive as the Sun, and the smallest stars are less than 1/10th as massive as the Sun. As far as comparing to other star *systems*--More than half of all stars are in binary or other multiple star systems, in which...

A nova is a strong, rapid increase in the brightness of a star. The word comes from the latin for "new star," because often a star previously too dim to be seen with the naked eye can become the brightest object in the sky (besides the sun and the moon) when it becomes a nova. Novae are now...

Stars are not boring objects with the same physical features. They come in a wide variety of sizes and colors. To fully understand why, you need to know the physics behind these. Let me try to put this in a simple way: Astronomers can detect colors of stars by taking their spectra (very similar...

If a star merged with another star, the planetary system's survival depends on several variables, which include the angle at which the second star is entering, the speed at which it is traveling, and its mass in relation to the first star. A more satisfying answer is that the planetary system...

How do we know what the properties of extrasolar planets are? What type of devices are we using to know this information? The way to detect the extrasolar planets is to look at the light coming from the star, since there is no way of looking at the planet directly. The observations are based on...