14-09-04 Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study by an international team of researchers led by York University professors Laurence Harris...

14-08-28 苏轼《水调歌头》 明月几时有？把酒问青天。不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？我欲乘风归去，又恐琼楼玉宇，高处不胜寒。起舞弄清影，何似在人间。 转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。不应有恨，何事长向别时圆？人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。 许...

14-08-26 One day, a little monkey is playing by the well. He looks in the well and shouts: Oh! My god! The moon has fallen into the well! An older monkeys runs over, takes a look, and says, Goodness me! The moon is really in the water! A group of monkeys run...

14-08-25 The moon appears to be a tranquil（安静的） place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the s...

14-08-21 When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew, who were walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navaj...

14-08-06 不服气是吧？ Disobey me? 我没干对不起你的事情。 I have nothing to apologize for. 那是我对不起你了？ Should I apologize to you? 放他一马吧。 Give him a break. 谁跟我抢食，我就跟谁玩儿命。 Any paw in my rice bowl gets cut off. 我本将心向明月，奈何明月...

14-06-11 Work presented today at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California shows that the timing of the giant impact between Earth's ancestor and a planet-sized body occurred around 40 million years after the start of solar system for...

14-06-10 A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around 4.5 billion years ago. This work will be published in Science on...

14-04-15 An old man cut himself a bundle of faggots（柴草） in wood and started to carry them home. He had a long way to go, and was tired out before he had got much more than half-way. Casting his burden on the ground, he called upon Death to come and relea...

14-04-06 An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system, according to a paper to be published April 3 in Nature. This conclusion is based on measurements from the int...