12-05-09 The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life form in the galaxy has, for many, seemed like an unl...

12-04-18 New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space（星际空间） . The nomad（流浪的） worlds, which were kicked out of the star systems in which they formed, occasionally find a...

11-11-30 The astrophysicist（天体物理学家） Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists at The University of Nottingham believe that Caenorhabditi...

11-10-30 Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed crashes between planets and asteroids（小行星） , according to a new theory from an international team of astronomers. The scienti...

11-08-05 在翻译过程中，有时英语长句中主句与修饰词的关系并不十分密切，翻译时可以按照汉语多用短句的习惯，把长句的从句或短语化成句子，分开来叙述。这被称为分句法。为了使语意连贯，有时还需要适当增加词语。例如: 1. Although perhaps only 1 percent of the life that h...

11-07-03 Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted on Monday. 俄罗斯一位权威天文学家周一预测，在未来二十年内，人类将能和外星人相遇。 The genesis of life is as inevitabl...

11-05-23 A planetary alignment is a rare spectacular event that has always been a topic of great interest and speculations. Some predict the end of the world, others see the start of a new golden era. This May the world will witness the alignment of six plan...

11-05-19 University of Notre Dame astronomer David Bennett is co-author of a new paper describing the discovery of a new class of planets dark, isolated Jupiter-mass bodies floating alone in space, far from any host star. Bennett and the team of astronomers...

10-12-15 In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new alien world. This hot Jupiter, now named Qatar-1b, add...

10-10-31 Nearly one in four stars like the sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars. UC Berkeley astronomers Andrew Howard and Geoffrey Marcy chose 166 G and K stars within 80 ligh...