21-05-22 中国科学家近日宣布，中国高海拔宇宙线观测站（LHAASO拉索）在银河系内发现大量超高能宇宙加速器，这一发现可能颠覆人类对银河系的认识，并有助于揭示宇宙线起源这个困扰了科学家一个世纪的问题。 Chinese scientists have detected a dozen ultra-high-energy (UHE) c...

20-11-21 欧洲的 系外行星特征卫星（Cheops）太空望远镜已发射升空，以探索太阳系外的行星。这个观测卫星将继续跟进以往的探索工作，尽全力发掘关于遥远世界的新见解。 Some 4,500 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. But theres a feeling now that the scien...

17-03-27 Two papers published by an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside and several collaborators explain why the universe has enough energy to become transparent. The study led by Naveen Reddy, an assistant professor in the Depart...

16-10-07 Samsung, maker of the troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, has another problem on its hands. 继盖世Note7爆炸事件后，三星日前面临又一棘手问题。 US regulators on Wednesday warned owners of certain top-loading Samsung washing machines of safety issues fo...

16-07-11 Galaxies come in three main shapes - elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way) and irregular. They can be massive or small. To add to this mix, galaxies can also be blue or red. Blue galaxies are still actively forming stars. Red ones mostly are no...

16-02-26 APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope, is located at 5100 metres above sea level on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama region. The ATLASGAL survey took advantage of the unique characteristics of the telescope to provide a detailed...

16-01-08 A trio of brightly pulsating stars at the outskirts of the Milky Way is racing away from the galaxy and may confirm a method for detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter and explain ripples in the outer disk of the galaxy. This new method t...

16-01-07 Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They're old, dating back almost to the birth of the Milky Way. And according to new...