14-06-20 When I had somewhat recovered I began to examine the spot in which I found myself, and truly it seemed to me that I had reached a garden of delights. There were trees everywhere, and they were laden with flowers and fruit, while a crystal stream wan...

14-03-26 A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical（电动机械的） gear for potential use in future missions to the Red Planet. They do it within their Mars environmental simulation chamber, which is specially designed...

14-03-19 The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows from outer space, he and his professor report in a new study. The new a...

14-03-11 Australian astronomers have shown galaxies in the vast empty regions of the Universe are actually aligned into delicate strings, according to research published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A team of astronomers ba...

14-03-06 Exposing leafy vegetables grown during spaceflight to a few bright pulses of light daily could increase the amount of eye-protecting nutrients produced by the plants, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. One...

14-02-24 Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere（磁气圈） , has much larger repercussions（反响，影响） for Venus. The giant explosions, called hot flow anomalies...

14-02-24 On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, but scientists don't yet kn...

14-02-13 Scientists have demonstrated a new method for counting whales from space. 科学家展示了一种从太空中计算鲸鱼数量的新方法。 It uses very high-resolution satellite pictures and image-processing software to automatically detect the great mammals at or ne...

13-12-24 New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near-space environment and is likely to influence our under...

13-12-18 The US space agency has ordered a series of emergency spacewalks to carry out repairs on a broken cooling line at the International Space Station. 美国太空总署下令进行一系列的紧急舱外活动以修复国际空间站一条破损的冷却管路。 The loops help cool inter...