大西洋深处隐藏着一座“失落之城”热液区，与其他深海热液系统不同。它不靠火山热驱动，而是依赖海水与地幔岩的化学反应，还存在独特微生物生态。了解这一区域，能为地外生命探索提供参考。

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “ last universal common ancestor .” The ...

The exoplanet, dubbed GJ 251 c, is at least four times larger than our own planet and is likely to be a rocky world located ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may ...

In 2012, a US research team succeeded in propping up a 4.35-ton replica of a moai statue and making it “walk.” The technique, ...

Researchers recreated Martian conditions in a laboratory using E. coli bacteria and pure water ice. The samples were frozen ...

A US team has found that organic material can be detected in ice beneath the Martian surface even after a very long time.

科学家们在重新分析美国航天局（NASA）“卡西尼”号探测器收集的数据时，于土星冰卫星——土卫二（Enceladus）上获得了令人激动的新证据。探测器在该卫星南极区域喷射出的强大水汽喷流中，检测到了复杂有机分子，这暗示着其冰层下的深海中正在发生活跃的化 ...

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The spacecraft detected complex organic molecules being blasted into ...

It’s a cosmic puzzle piece that doesn’t seem to belong to any known set. We all know the Moon has a side that always faces away from us, but it turns out that far side might be hiding something ...