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China on Sunday launched a new type of rocket that will be primarily used for carrying satellites aloft, state media reported, as the country races ahead with an ambitious space programme.

It is known today that merging galaxies play a large role in the evolution of galaxies and the formation of elliptical galaxies in particular....

For years, science fiction writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to C. S. Lewis have imagined what it would be like for humans to walk on Mars. As mankind comes closer to taking its first steps on the Red Planet, authors'...

A microburst might sound like some astronomical minicatastrophe, but it's actually a much more terrestrial event: A sudden accelerating downdraft of wind from a cloud that can, at times, be quite violent. Some are dry, w...

The latest images (as of Sept. 11, 2015) downloaded from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were stitched together and rendered on a sphere to make this flyover....

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 bur...

Phytoplankton communities and sea ice limn the turbulent flow field around Iceland in this Suomi-NPP/VIIRS scene collected on June 14, 2015....