• 天文学家在银河系外首次发现行星

    10-11-19 Over the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet with a minimum mass 1.25 times that of Jupiter has been discov...

  • 月球背面高地的形成分析

    10-11-12 A bulge(膨胀,凸出部分) of elevated topography(地势) on the farside of the moon--known as the lunar farside highlands--has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that...

  • 银河系发现新式巨大的星体结构

    10-11-10 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way -- a finding likened in terms of scale to the discovery of a new continent on Earth. The feature, which spans 50,000 light-years, may be the...

  • Fathers and Sons

    10-11-08 Fathers and Sons Patrick Lane I will walk across the long slow grass where the desert sun waits among the stones and reach down into the heavy earth and lift your body back into the day. My hands will swim down through the clay like white fish who w...

  • 美宇航局启动“百年星航”计划将移民火星

    10-11-06 美国宇航局正在筹划一个名为百年星航的项目,计划在时机成熟时将载人航天器发送至火星,并让宇航员在那里定居,最终将火星拓展为人类的另一个领地。 NASA is planning a one-way mission to Mars in a program called 'Hundred Years Starship' in which, a manned spa...

  • 英国推出气候变化为玩点的电脑游戏

    10-11-06 英国一家游戏开发公司本周一推出了一款以气候变化为主题的电脑游戏试用版,让每个玩家都能够参与到拯救世界的行动中。 'Fate of the World' puts the Earth's future in players' hands, placing them in charge of an international environmental body which could s...

  • 地震“测速枪”研制成功

    10-11-01 Researchers at the University of Bristol reveal today in the journal Nature that they have developed a seismological(地震学上的) 'speed gun' for the inside of the Earth. Using this technique they will be able to measure the way the Earth's deep in...

  • 人类对自然资源的需求超出地球承载

    10-10-23 Human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half, a new report has warned. 一份新报告警告称,人类对自然资源的需求量在不到50年内翻了一番,目前已超出地球供应能力的...

  • 太阳如何影响地球气候

    10-10-07 The Sun's activity has recently affected the Earth's atmosphere and climate in unexpected ways, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. The study, by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Colorado, sh...

  • 联合国任命首位“星际外交官”

    10-09-30 A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth. 联合国将任命首位星际外交官,代表人类与试图和地球联系的外星人进行最初接触。 Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astro...