15-11-20 An international team of scientists in Australia and the United States has captured the first-ever images of a planet in the making. The accumulation of dust and gas particles onto a new planet - the process by which the planet continues to form and...

15-11-13 The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its...

15-10-21 UCLA geochemists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago -- 300 million years earlier than previous research suggested. The discovery indicates that life may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.5...

15-08-17 A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could provide a new understanding of how planets formed around our sun. The new planet, called 51 Eridani b, is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet...

15-05-04 The decline of the world's large herbivores, especially in Africa and parts of Asia, is raising the specter of an empty landscape in some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, according to a newly published study. Many populations of animals...

15-04-09 For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star. The discovery, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)...

14-12-24 Welcome to the bottom of the world. 欢迎来到地球边缘。 Go any further south, you'll fall off the planet. 如果你再向南走，你就会从地球边上掉下去了。 First time for everything, I suppose. 凡事总要有个开头， 这也好。 Ready to go out and greet the heat?...

14-11-29 A new map of 151 countries has revealed exactly which parts of the globe deliver long and happy lives for their citizens, within the environmental limits of the planet. 在全球环境限制下，151国新地图出炉，揭密世界上哪个地区的居民最幸福长寿。 And the...

14-09-25 Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapour on a planet outside our Solar System. The planet, known as HAT-P-11b, is...

14-08-08 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Laura Kasischke The broom closet to another planet. The impending（即将发生的） planetary disaster. The children in their maniac（发狂的） trances（恍惚，出神） . The rockets. The neighbors. The openmouthed spectators. The boy tumblin...