Sighting of unexplained lights in Bay skies have sparked nearly a dozen similar reports

An expert has weighed in on reports of a bright light shooting across the skies over New Zealand last night.

Nasa astronomers have spotted seven Earth-size planets. Should we be excited?

Group of planets orbiting dwarf star best shot yet at finding life out there, writes Sarah Kaplan.

Tristram Clayton interviews Grant Christie, Astronomer at Auckland Observatory, about the discovery of a new solar system just 39 light years from Earth.

Nasa have discovered six inner planets which can support life - not too hot and not too cold. YouTube / Global News

NASA says it has some big news to tell the world.

Source: Space X

WATCH: SpaceX launched from the historic Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre and safely returned.

Comment: New ways of teaching have some merits, but many flaws.

Speaking at the World Government Summit, Elon Musk talked about aliens, AI, commercial space flights and a 'universal income' for every human.

Source: Youtube / Space-Agencies

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has described the moment he captured the Taranaki volcano from aboard the International Space Station.

Companies are heading to court in a battle for a contract to repair satellites with space robots.

NASA is heading back to Wanaka to launch its super balloons which orbit the globe performing scientific monitoring.

NASA has confirmed it will return to Wanaka to launch it's super-pressure balloon which will see the 18.8 million cubic foot balloon

The shallow, snaking, braided channels of Canterbury's Waimakariri River - and the heavily-developed pastureland around it - have been captured by a NASA satellite.

Five of New Zealand's leading visionaries have just teamed up for a new high-tech showcase of Kiwi ingenuity.

A 98-year-old cruise boat and her Whangarei boat shed are up for sale, an offer its owners say is "as rare as hen's teeth".

With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world. This panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on September 15, 2006.

Mining on the moon has moved a step closer and billionaire Peter Thiel, along with Kiwi firm Rocket Labs, are at the forefront of making history.

Vladimir Putin stopped by Moscow University and treated students to a stirring rendition of a traditional Soviet space song.

NASA has launched the most sophisticated weather satellite ever launched, and the pictures are incredible.

Photos taken by a new satellite launched last November have been released by NASA and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Source: CNBC

There's a strange side to one of the country's wealthiest citizens.

New Zealand is ready to join the space race, with Kiwi start-up Rocket Lab on the brink of launching a rocket to the moon.

Alien megastructure? Or natural mega-disaster? Astronomers have crunched the numbers and come up with a new explanation for the erratic flickering of a distant star. Indigestion.

The Moon may have formed through the merging of 20 smaller 'moonlets' following asteroid strikes on the young Earth, a new theory suggests.

A highrise-sized asteroid capable of exploding with the force of 700 megatons slipped quietly past the Earth yesterday, twice as close as the Moon. We didn't see it coming.

This is New Zealand from 400 kilometres above the earth.