• 新视野号填补了太空环境观测领域空白

    16-04-06 When NASAs New Horizons sped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took the best-ever pictures of the rocky world s surface, giving us new insight into its geology, composition and atmosphere. These stunning images are the most famous result of New Horizo...

  • 印尼出现罕见日全食

    16-03-09 A rare total solar eclipse has taken place over parts of Indonesia, as well as parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans this morning. 今天上午,印度尼西亚、印度以及太平洋部分地区发生了一起罕见的日全食。 The moon began to move between the Earth and sun...

  • 太阳系中存在第九颗行星

    16-01-28 Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system. 研究人员如今相当确定,太阳系中存在着第九颗行星。 Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times the mass of Earth and has...

  • 天文学家发现第九颗行星存在的证据

    16-01-21 Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20...

  • 美国能源实验室改进氢光电化学的产量

    15-12-28 Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made advances toward affordable photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of hydrogen. NREL's scientists took a different approach to the PEC process, which uses sol...

  • 行星毁灭真实存在

    15-10-22 The Death Star of the movie Star Wars may be fictional, but planetary destruction is real. Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. The discovery a...

  • 气体巨星的形成之谜

    15-08-21 Queen's University researcher Martin Duncan has co-authored a study that solves the mystery of how gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn formed in the early solar system. In a paper published this week in the journal Nature, Dr. Duncan, along with c...

  • 天文学家在太阳系外发现强大的极光

    15-07-30 Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar to the famous Northern Lights on Earth -- is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen. They found the aurora not from a pla...

  • 可以储存大量太阳能的能量电池

    15-07-02 A University of Texas at Arlington materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even when it's dark. The innovation is an advancement over the most common solar energy systems that re...

  • 土卫六的大气与地球很相似

    15-06-24 Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan...