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Nuclear 'tunnelbot' probes alien life
It looks little more than a giant snowball. But now Nasa thinks it can probe it.

Recording shows what it sounds like on Mars
The Mars lander has released audio of sounds from the red planet never heard before.

Nanogirl: How vacuuming could save the planet
COMMENT: An interplanetary vacuum cleaner may be about to change the world.

Nasa scientist claims aliens may have already visited Earth
We may have missed a visit from an alien life form, a Nasa scientist claims.

'Flawless': Mars lander joins select club
InSight is only the eighth space explorer from Earth to make it onto the Red Planet.

'I'm here': Mars probe posts first images after successful landing
'There's a quiet beauty here' - InSight's tweets track its progress in real time.

Mars landing: 'This is what we hoped and imagined'
Radio signals confirming the landing took more than eight minutes to reach Earth.

Elon Musk says he will probably move to Mars
Musk says the likelihood of him going to Mars is "70 per cent".

Sheep space: Is NZ wool about to blast off to Mars?
New Zealand wool may be about to go where no human has gone before: deep space.

Want your name on a spaceship?
Nasa may let companies buy the naming rights to its rockets in 'commercialisation' drive.

Hole in International Space Station 'drilled deliberately'
New pictures show the hole in the space station had been deliberately drilled.

Astronaut plugged space station hole with his finger
Hole caused by a small meteorite led to a drop in cabin pressure.

Tweet costs woman dream internship at NASA
A boorish intern was left red-faced after a Twitter thread spun out of control.

'Go touch the Sun': NASA launches historic solar mission
Unprecedented quest to get closer to the Sun gets off to a good start.

Watch live launch: $1.5 billion mission to 'touch the Sun'
The Parker probe will venture closer to our star than any other spacecraft.

NASA rocket's journey to the sun delayed
NASA has postponed the historic launch of the first spacecraft to fly towards the Sun.

Rocket Lab plans rapid-fire New Zealand launches
After scrubbed launches Rocket Lab will try again in quick succession later this year.

Blood Moon 2018: See the best pics of lunar eclipse
People across the globe are glimpsing the longest blood moon eclipse this century.

Water on Mars: Large lake of briny water discovered
The find underneath Mars' south pole raises tantalising possibilities.

Is Rotorua our closest thing to Mars?
Is there life on Mars? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Physics professor claims alien encounters are 'covered up'
He says humanity must "face the possibility" UFO sightings really are alien craft.

Rocket men: Inside story of first astronauts to orbit the moon
On Christmas Eve, 3 astronauts became first humans to orbit the moon. Here's their story.

Battle over Armstrong's moon dust
"To Laura Ann Murray - Best of Luck - Neil Armstrong Apollo 11."

Curiosity rover's finds fuel quest for life on Mars
Nasa discovery of ancient organic material revives scientists' hopes.

Unlocking mysteries of the universe
Flying telescope to study Milky Way centre and Saturn's moon, Titan

Nasa's probe discovers dunes on Pluto
Nasa's New Horizons probe gave us the best look at Pluto yet.

Ice exploration could help put man on Mars
Scientific forays into Antarctica are helping to expand research on planets like Mars.

Fresh hopes of finding life in space after water plumes discovered on Jupiter's moon
Nasa finds giant jets of water, boosting chances of finding life on Jupiter's moon.