Asteroid travelling more than 32,400 km/h considered to be a "potential hazardous" object.

The impact of farming, forestry and climate change on our lakes is captured from space.

Last time Earth's poles reversed was 780k years ago, if it happens again we're in trouble.

NZ's East Coast is in the firing line for NASA's space junk.

Nine Kiwis are booked on Virgin Galactic's space tourism flights moving towards lift-off.

EDITORIAL: Commercial space travel is still a fearful prospect.

For all its lofty ambitions, SpaceX is yet to put a human in space.

A Kiwi physics experiment has managed to do what decades of international research hasn't.

Unprecedented quest to get closer to the Sun gets off to a good start.

Plan could lead to first new branch of the military in 70 years. But some have concerns.

It turned out to be unlike anything found on Earth and has researchers baffled.

The newly discovered rogue planet is believed to be 12 times as large as Jupiter.

After scrubbed launches Rocket Lab will try again in quick succession later this year.

Meteor struck earth near a US military base, but Air Force has stayed silent on the event.

Theories suggest signal could originate from a black hole or advanced alien civilisation.

He's spending big on his dream to terraform Mars. But science just found a huge problem.

People across the globe are glimpsing the longest blood moon eclipse this century.

The heavens are currently treating star-gazers to one stunner of a variety show.

Star-gazers are soon to get a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse at a "blood moon" like no other.

A space lawyer explains who owns the moon, and what it means for lunar mining.

Mark Zuckerberg is again going head to head against his fellow tycoon and rival Elon Musk.

Scientist have found conditions on lunar surface could have supported simple lifeforms.

"It's a brand new vision on what's happening in the universe."

Mars is paying its closest visit for the next 17 years, making the planet appear bigger.

A Russian rocket's booster failed shortly after liftoff in Kazakhstan - forcing a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut to make a harrowing emergency landing. / AP / NASA

Is there life on Mars? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The rocket was developed by a Ferrari-driving maverick Japanese entrepreneur.

He says humanity must "face the possibility" UFO sightings really are alien craft.

On Christmas Eve, 3 astronauts became first humans to orbit the moon. Here's their story.

Asteroid 3 times bigger than NZ cannoning past Earth — here's how you can see it.