Have We Found the First Moon outside the Solar System?

Scientists say they may have found the first moon outside our solar system. Many planets are known to exist beyond our solar system. But there has been no confirmation of a moon on the outside. The possible moon appears considerably larger than Earth

CNN 2011-12-10

CNN News from here Atlanta, Georgia straight to your classrooms, Im Carl Azuz, this is CNN Student News. Today were starting something called a payroll tax. Heres the deal on the payroll tax from A to Z. Americans have been getting a break on their f

SSS 2011-09-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? Out in space, NASA's Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. The telescope's job is to see if those stars dim ever so slightlybecause of the presence of an

SSS 2009-02-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Were on the verge of finding out how frequently habitable planets occur in the universe. That was astronomer Alan Boss at the AAAS meeting on February 14th. And I thin

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The advantage of this transit method is that it is well-suited to mass production. 这种中天方法的优势在于非常适合大量成果产出。 Kepler was designed to stare fixedly at a single patch of sky in the constellation of Cygnus, observ

经济学人: 开普勒 R.I.P (1)

It used to be that finding even one new planet was enough to make an astronomer's career. 曾经即便是找到一颗新卫星都足以成就一名天文学家的事业。 Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, who these days has, among o

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (3)

That would give them a better sense of just how massive it is. 这将让他们更好的感知这个物体有多么的巨大。 There maybe more to come. The two researchers think they have found a second promising target lurking in Kepler's data. 或许

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WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

VOA慢速英语2017 新发现的太阳系与我们的太阳系相匹配

Newly Discovered Solar System Matches Our Own The American space agency NASA and the technology company Google have identified an eighth planet in a faraway solar system. 美国宇航局和谷歌科技公司已经发现了一个遥远的类太阳系中

为支持生命,美国太空总署扩大对遥远行星的搜索

US Space Agency Expands Search for Distant Planets Able to Support Life The search for worlds orbiting distant stars will intensify in the coming weeks when the American space agency NASA launches a spacecraft. Scientists hope the spacecraft will enl

科学家发现8个或有生命存在的行星

Eight new planets have been discovered in the 'Goldilocks' zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where oceans and life could exist. 科学家已经发现了8个新的可能有海洋和生命的行星。它们位于这些行星的恒星的适居带

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AS IT IS 2016-05-12 NASA Discovers Nearly 1,300 New Planets 美国宇航局发现了将近1300颗新行星 NASA the U.S. space agency said it found nearly 1,300 planets outside our solar system. Nine of the planets are orbiting stars at the distance

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Nine Years In Orbit, Kepler Telescope Leaves A Legacy Of Discovery

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This is Lulu's log, stardate November 4, 2018, where we consider matters of space, the stars and the universe. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: When looking up at the stars, it's hard not to wonder what else or even who

Orbit tower unveiled in London's Olympic park

LONDON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A controversial steel tower was unveiled in the Olympic park of London on Friday, about two and a half months before opening of the Games, which was hoped to become of a new icon of the city and bring more visitors. The tow

MESSENGER Spacecraft Will Be First to Orbit Planet Mercury

The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury（水银） early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

Russia's Mission Control raises ISS by 10.2 km

MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The Mission Control conducted the correction(修

NASA发现“另一个地球”

Today we're announcing the discovery of an exoplanet that as far as we can tell is a pretty good close cousin to the earth and our sun An historic moment in NASA's epic pursuit of earth-like planets, as the newly discovered Kepler-452b was officially

经济学人214:另一个地球?

Science and technology 科学技术 Another Earth? 另一个地球？ Home away from home 远离家乡的家 ONE of the more memorable slogans to come out of the climate-change talks in Durban over the past few days is: 在过去几天的Durban气候变

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美国太空总署（NASA）于今日凌晨零时宣布发现首颗太阳系外位于宜居带上体积最接近地球大小的行星（代号为开普勒-452b），这是人类在寻找太阳系外第二地球道路上的重要里程碑。 请看外媒

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