12-03-20 More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the innermost（最里面的） of Jupiter's largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite. The ma...

11-09-29 China is due to launch its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1. 中国将发射首颗太空实验室，天宫1号。 China is taking a stepped approach to the development of its human spaceflight programme The 10.5m-long, cylindrical（圆柱形的） module will be unmann...

11-09-24 正向地球袭来的美国报废卫星预计将于美国东部时间9月23日下午到达地球，但具体落地地点目前无从得知。不过美国宇航局表示，降落地点肯定不在北美。目前，美国宇航局和空军正在密切追踪这颗卫星及其毁灭轨道。 A dead NASA satellite will plummet to Earth on Friday (...

11-06-08 The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirmed a hot tower near the center of the first tropical...

11-02-13 The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate/weather satellite is undergoing flight environmental testing at Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp's production and test facility in...

11-01-05 The epic（史诗的） ocean- spanning（生成，长成） journeys of the gigantic leatherback（棱皮龟） turtle in the South Atlantic have been revealed for the first time thanks to groundbreaking research using satellite tracking. Experts at the Centre for...

10-10-04 西昌卫星发射中心10月1日宣布，嫦娥二号卫星准确入轨，发射圆满成功。 Long March 3C rocket carrying China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, lifts off from the launch pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Provinc...

10-09-14 Tropical Depression 12 was born in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean yesterday, Sept. 12 and two NASA satellites saw factors that indicated she would later strengthen into Tropical Storm Julia. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed stron...

10-09-08 ESA's GOCE gravity mission has recovered from a glitch（小故障，失灵） that prevented the satellite from sending its flow of scientific data to the ground. News of the recovery comes earlier than expected, thanks to the fervent（热心的，强烈的） eff...

10-08-19 New satellite imagery has given scientists the most comprehensive and exact data on the distribution and decline of mangrove（红树林） forests from across the world. The research, carried out by scientists from the U.S Geological Survey and NASA, is...