The starry night is an ancient and enduring object of human fascination, expert says.

Scientists don't know where they come from, but they think they're closing in on answer.

EDITORIAL: With two major space-age achievements already this year, what else is in store?

There's a chance part of the burning night sky object is sitting in someone's backyard.

The first landing is a statement of Beijing's technological advancements and its intent.

A Chinese spacecraft has made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon.

Ultima Thule is two objects joined together.

This spacecraft team will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant world.

A photo lends a one-of-a-kind image inspiration to care for our planet.

NZ scientists in Antarctica are using military radio signals to monitor space weather.

It looks little more than a giant snowball. But now Nasa thinks it can probe it.

Its the first time Nasa has booked a whole private rocket to carry cubesats to space.

A supposed UFO was spotted 40 years

It was New Year's Eve in 1978 when strange lights were spotted over South Island.

China has successfully launched the rocket.

Largest collection in the southern hemisphere. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The Mars lander has released audio of sounds from the red planet never heard before.

COMMENT: An interplanetary vacuum cleaner may be about to change the world.

We've only scratched at the surface in past 50 years.

InSight is only the eighth space explorer from Earth to make it onto the Red Planet.

'There's a quiet beauty here' - InSight's tweets track its progress in real time.

Musk says the likelihood of him going to Mars is "70 per cent".

US has pulled off seven landings in three decades - but this one won't be easy.

EDITORIAL: Missions to Mars show off Nasa's engineering prowess in spectacular ways.

Astronomers discovered evidence of an alien world unlike anything in our own solar system.

The invisible mass is travelling at a breakneck 500 km per second.

Increasing exposure to artificial blue light is hurting our health and our environment.

Alexander Gerst posted amazing images of the South Island, including the Southern Alps.

What does Antarctica have to do with one of Jupiter's moons? More than you might think.