14-11-07 Children could be travelling between centuries as soon as the year 2100, while teleportation could become a regular occurence by around 2080, professors from Imperial College London and the University of Glasgow have said. 帝国理工学院和格拉斯哥大学...

14-10-22 Crewed missions to Mars remain an essential goal for NASA, but scientists are only now beginning to understand and characterize the radiation hazards that could make such ventures risky, concludes a new paper by University of New Hampshire scientist...

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...

14-09-04 Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study by an international team of researchers led by York University professors Laurence Harris...

14-09-04 Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) -- among other telescopes -- have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed Laniak...

14-08-27 US defence giant Lockheed Martin has struck a deal with an Australian technology firm to track space debris that can damage satellites. 美国国防巨头洛克希德马丁公司与澳大利亚一家科技公司达成协议，追踪能损毁卫星的太空垃圾。 Most space debris is man-m...

14-08-27 A unique experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer（测高仪） has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending（离奇古怪令人费解的） questions about our universe -- includin...

14-07-24 In 2012, the Voyager mission team announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had passed into interstellar space, traveling further from Earth than any other manmade object. But, in the nearly two years since that historic announcement, and despite subs...

14-07-14 Scotland could host the UK's first dedicated base for spaceplanes, according to new government plans. 根据英国政府的新计划，苏格兰可能将建造英国首个航天飞机专用基地。 Artist's concept: Virgin Galactic plans to launch satellites as well as people int...

14-06-20 An international team of astronomers, using data from several NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) space observatories, has discovered unexpected behavior from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy NGC 5548, located 244.6 million li...