NZ-led expedition investigates how warming oceans could erode huge ice sheet.

Billionaires may be the future of space policy. Here is what they want from it:

Ten beach sites in Auckland among those listed as unsafe.

Man who led secret government programme to combat UFO attacks says 'we may not be alone'.

Three slow slips were triggered following the Kaikoura earthquake last November.

Weta Workshop & Te Papa's blockbuster Bug Lab exhibition opens at Auckland Zoo.

UCOL nursing graduates are finding success in the working world.

Soon, we will get to see an actual black hole for the very first time.

Space rock whose strange cigar-shape led to speculations it could be an alien spacecraft.

MP Shane Jones says the "tangi of the kauri" could be at hand.

"It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen." Pilots in video released from Pentagon.

Scientists have gathered a sediment sample from deep below the Pacific Ocean's surface.

Scientists exploring the Kermadec Trench believe they have retrieved the deepest ever sediment sample from the bottom of the ocean using a wire-deployed corer. The sample was obtained a week ago at 9994m deep in a mission that took six hours to complete. / Supplied by NIWA

Top scientist claims in 10 to 20 years, Western societies will rarely drink alcohol.

Comment: These theories were put to bed about 600 years ago.

How 3000 golden retrievers could help all canines enjoy longer lives.

An unstoppable kauri-killing disease may have been lurking here for centuries.

Given the margins of error, the shark could have been born 500 years ago.

New Zealand scientists have found a new hope against a tide of invasive pests.

It's a test that was used to uncover and fight racism - but it might have been lying to us

Ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round, so why do so many celebrities think it's flat?

COMMENT: What the bubbles in your Champagne tell you.

Was St Nicholas a legend or was he a real person? Scientists have evidence for the latter.

Would you like some yeast and salt with your ice-cream?

NZ doesn't have a co-ordinated plan to adapt to future climate change, Govt report finds.

Nasa has announced it has found a new exoplanet in the Kepler star system.

It is offensive to doctors to suggest they use morphine for euthanasia.

New Zealand's glaciers have shrunk in area by one third since over the past four decades.

He says that a broken alien spacecraft would move the same way as the interstellar comet.

A NZ astrophysicist has shed new light on the 'binge-eating' habits of exhausted stars.