16-01-07 China will launch manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11 and space lab Tiangong-2 in 2016, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. 中国航天科技集团公司表示,2016年中国将发射神舟11号载人飞船与天宫2号太空实验室。 The Long March-5 and L...
15-11-19 The results of an opportunistic, pilot-scale study led by Virginia Wotring of the Center for Space Medicine and Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine in the U.S. suggest that medication degradation on the International Space Stati...
15-11-19 Peering into darkness can strike fear into the hearts of some, but a new space telescope will soon peer into the darkness of near space (within a few thousand light years of Earth). Scientists are using the telescope to seek answers related to the f...
15-11-04 China on Wednesday morning put a new communication satellite into orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center. 本周三上午,中国西南部西昌卫星发射中心将一颗通讯卫星送入预定轨道。 The ChinaSat 2C satellite was launched at 12:25 a.m. an...
15-10-30 State-of-the-art molecular analysis of dust samples from the International Space Station (ISS) has been employed to reveal new information about some of the potential bacterial agents present in the astronauts' space environment. The research, publi...
15-09-29 India has successfully launched its first space observatory and six satellites into orbit. 印度成功将其首颗太空望远镜与六颗卫星送入轨道。 It comes as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to expand his country's influence in the competitive g...
15-09-23 If only calculating the distance between Earth and far-off galaxies was as easy as pulling out the old measuring tape. Now UBC researchers are proposing a new way to calculate distances in the cosmos using mysterious bursts of energy. In a study fea...
15-09-07 A team of Caltech researchers that has spent years searching for the earliest objects in the universe now reports the detection of what may be the most distant galaxy ever found. In an article published August 28, 2015 in Astrophysical Journal Lette...
15-08-13 Northeast China's Jilin Province plans to send Jilin-1, the country's first self-developed remote sensing satellite for commercial use, into space in October, its designers said Tuesday. 中国东北吉林省计划于今年十月向太空发射首颗自主研发商业用途遥感...
15-08-12 An international team of astronomers studying 200,000 galaxies has measured the energy generated within a large portion of space more precisely than ever before, discovering that it's only half what it was 2 billion years ago and fading - the Univer...