Decision was made despite Trump directing space agency to focus on a return to the moon.

Peter Beck says New Zealand should be celebrating firms that go global.

Calling all planets that orbit around bright, nearby stars.

Dennis Muilenburg claims he will even bring billionaire's Tesla Roadster back from space.

Commercial providers draw nearer to taking tourists to Space, is it wise to sign up yet?

Arrival of 'Death Planet' sparks fears of end of the world among believers.

Nasa astronaut shared stories about life as an astronaut to Dunedin school pupils.

The platform would orbit 320km above Earth, offering guests 384 sunrises and sunsets.

Nasa is looking to help fill the gap left by the Concorde.

If we can't find other life in the universe, machines may be able to do it for us.

It will be a destination that is not just off the beaten track - it will be off any track.

Centre of Milky Way described as Times Square for strange super gravity objects.

On the surface, the second planet from our sun should be uninhabitable.

Not far from New Zealand lies the world's "spacecraft cemetery" known as Point Nemo.

China insists space station is unlikely to cause any damage when it crashes to earth.

There are now more than 170 million pieces of space debris in circulation.

Chinese satellite likely to produce 'series of fireballs' as it plummets to Earth.

Space experts scrambling to guess where the space station will crash.

Humanity Star was meant to last nine months, but it's coming down to Earth a lot sooner.

There's a chance an asteroid will smack into Earth in 2135; NASA's working on a plan.

There are 70 different space-related businesses in New Zealand.

Research submitted two weeks before he died revealed how we can detect other universes.

Nasa has found that life away from planet Earth has exacted a surprising toll.

NASA's study on astronaut identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly is said to yield important information on the biological effects of living in space. Source - NASA

Nasa unable to defend Earth against a doomsday asteroid taller than Empire State building.

Stephen Hawking: Born: 8 January 1942, Died: 14 March 2018 - brave and brilliant.

Musk has a chilling prediction about the future of humanity and there's only one solution.

For the third time in three months a video shows US Navy fighters encountering UFOs.

NZ has is one of the regions at high risk, but another country has a higher probability.

Revised timeline for space station plummeting to Earth that could potentially hit NZ.