14-11-12 A European spacecraft is a big step closer to attempting a first-ever soft landing on a comet. 欧洲一架航天器向首次在彗星上软着陆迈进了一大步。 This photo released by the European Space Agency on December 20, 2013 shows an artist impression of Roset...

14-09-16 NASA's Alice ultraviolet (UV) spectrograph aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet orbiter has delivered its first scientific discoveries. Rosetta, in orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is the first spacecraft to study a comet up...

13-11-08 Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling（令人困惑的） object in the asteroid（小行星） belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler（洒水车） or badminton shuttlecock. While this object is on an as...

13-03-08 It's among the most ancient of questions: What are the origins of life on Earth? A new experiment simulating conditions in deep space reveals that the complex building blocks of life could have been created on icy interplanetary dust and then carrie...

12-05-04 When Dad played his fiddle（小提琴） , the world became a bright star. To him violin was an instrument of faith, hope and charity. At least a thousand times, my mother said, Your papa would play his fiddle if the world was about to blow up. And once...

11-11-09 Anglo-French electrical goods retailer Kesa has announced plans to sell off its troubled UK-based Comet stores to a private equity firm for just 2. 英法电器销售商科萨宣布欲以2英镑的价格将总部位于英国的店铺彗星卖给一家私人股权公司。 The buyer is a gr...

11-06-17 Hartley 2's hyperactive（极度活跃的） state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science by an international team of scientists that includes Lucy McFadden of NASA's Goddard Sp...

10-12-29 As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on December 26, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) discovered its 2000th comet. Drawing on help f...

10-06-04 1. 萝卜青菜，各有所爱。 [误] Some prefer radish but others prefer cabbage. [正] Tastes differ. 注：Tastes differ/vary .是句英语谚语，除此以外，原句还可翻译成 No dish suits all tastes.或 You can never make everyone happy. 等。此外，我们还可以这样说：...

10-05-25 Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun. Using instruments aboard NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft, four post-doctoral fellows at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences La...