13-06-27 All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars, including our Sun, are born in small, benign（良性的，亲切的） groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years as stellar clusters. Within such r...

13-06-26 A capsule carrying three Chinese astronauts has landed safely after a 15-day mission in space. 一艘载有三名中国航天员的着陆舱已安全着陆，这三位航天员在太空中进行了15天的任务。 The astronauts travelled on the Shenzhou-10 craft to China's space labora...

13-06-20 China's second female astronaut, Wang Yaping, has delivered the country's first-ever video lecture from space. 中国第二位女航天员王亚平首次在太空中进行视频讲课。 Speaking to students via live video, Ms Wang used spinning tops, a ball, water and a fe...

13-04-16 Blow-off vision of the rain, so that you are left with a brilliant rainbow. Shuttle time in my fingers, without any regrets, open stemmed bloom ripples. Blunt（钝的） rolling thick liquid eternal, but you and I, were dispersed in which period of Aca...

13-03-01 Dennis Tito, a billionaire financier who in 2001 became the first space tourist, has launched a project to send two civilians on an historic journey to the Red Planet in January 2018. 美国亿万富翁金融家丹尼斯-蒂托正在筹划一次历史性的旅程，在2018年1...

13-01-31 South Korea says the satellite launched on Wednesday has made contact with a ground station and is sending data. 韩国称，周三发射的卫星已于地面实验室取得联络并开始传送数据。 The launch was South Korea's first successful attempt to put a satellite in...

13-01-18 Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light...

13-01-09 In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers led by faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Baylor College of Medicine, has analyzed data on the impact of prolonged operational confinement（限制...

12-12-18 Imagine riding in an airplane as the plane is jolted back and forth by gusts of wind that you can't prove exist but are there nonetheless（尽管如此） . Similar turbulence exists in space, and a research team led by the University of Iowa reports to...

12-12-03 An ambitious billionaire has revealed his plans to colonise Mars - and charge 80,000 brave souls $500,000 to be flown there. 一个野心勃勃的亿万富翁透露了他在火星上殖民的计划这需要8万个勇敢的人支付50万美金飞往火星才能实现。 Elon Musk, the billionaire...