Mengjie Wu, a researcher at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, received the Young Scientist Award at the XXXVIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), taking place in Kraków, Poland, in recognition of her research achievements and contributions to ionospheric radio science. A total of 61 young scientists rece...
08 26, 2026
August 17, 2026, A delegation from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) in Mexico, led by Rector Santos Guzmán, visited the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement to deepen bilateral collaboration in astronomy and space science.
08 19, 2026
The research team utilized orbital similarity criteria and numerical simulations to systematically screen known near-Earth asteroids, identifying multiple groups of potential candidates that may share a common origin, and determining their possible separation times. This study not only deepens our understanding of the evolutionary ...
08 12, 2026
The Second Annual Science Meeting of the Earth 2.0 (ET) Space Mission was successfully held in Kunming, Yunnan Province, from July 27–31, 2026. Organized by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the meeting brought together more than 200 scientists and students from 26 international insti...
08 03, 2026
Jointly organized by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the “2026 Workshop and Summer School on Space Earth Observation and Global Change” was successfully held in Shanghai from July 13 to 17, ...
07 31, 2026
The astrometry team at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a new method to use Gaia DR3 astrometric “excess noise” to constrain the orbital inclinations of binary systems and, in turn, improve mass estimates for unseen companions. The study was published in the international jo...
07 28, 2026
Recently, a team led by Dr. Kuo Liu and Dr. Siyuan Chen from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. Xingjiang Zhu from Beijing Normal University, has made significant progress in testing dark matter using pulsar timing array (PTA) data. The study was published in Physical Review D.
07 16, 2026
Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with international collaborators, carried out the first spatially resolved dual-frequency spectral study of the M87 black hole using observations obtained in 2018 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global Millim...
07 20, 2026
An international research team led by the Early Universe and High-Redshift Galaxy Group at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has conducted a systematic variability study of seven low-redshift analogs of the compact red sources known as Little Red Dots (LRDs). From an independent time-domain perspec...
07 14, 2026
