NZ's most famous UFO sighting was a moving cluster of bright lights five times the size of a large fishing vessel that dazzled and spooked the occupants of a small plane, files released today reveal.

Thousands of people turned their eyes to the sky for the first lunar eclipse visible from NZ in three years.

A front rolling across the country is set to obscure the first lunar eclipse in NZ skies in almost three years.

Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions is challenging enough. But what if we can't even measure the pollution we're trying to reduce?

The embalmed head of one of the most infamous kings of France has been identified by scientists 400 years after his assassination.

You can sequence your own genome for $10,000 USD - and it will only take around eight days to complete.

The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.

Where would the world of childbirth be without those uninhibited European women who feature so prominently in birthing videos?

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

New Zealand is in for a long, hot summer as La Nina hits our shores, says the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa).

Alien life has been among us all along, according to new biological findings announced by Nasa.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

NZ's Antarctic research is a microcosm of how the country's scientific future should unfold, says Sir Peter Gluckman.

Good-looking couples are more likely to have daughters than plainer parents, according to a study.