Android users are more honest than iPhone users, researchers have found, in a study revealing what our choice of smartphones say about us.

Should we go to Mars? A new docu-drama makes a "mind-blowing" case to answer with a yes, writes Calum Henderson.

Meet the aspiring 'Martian' willing to give up her life to be the first woman on Mars.

COMMENT: The question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has been asked by people for many years.

It's impossible. But science appears to say it's happening. A prototype space engine seems to be producing energy from nothing.

Trump has said he wants to send people back to the moon, slashing Nasa's climate change budget.

The new ISS crew members are NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and France's Thomas Pesquet.

A chance to meet the world's most famous living moon walker was not living up to any of my wildly unrealistic hopes and expectations.

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The countdown has begun in earnest for a Kiwi dad who wants to boldly go where no man has gone before - Mars.

On Monday the largest supermoon in almost 70 years will light up the night sky ... but Tuesday night might bring the most spectacular New Zealand moonrise.

Tuesday's supermoon is generating much excitement - and conspiracy theories.

COMMENT: Associate Professor Johan Potgieter reckons New Zealand's future as a space nation looks bright.

Fears that aliens were taking over Northland have been allayed by weather experts who say a cloud - not an alien mother ship - was

A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer - when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties.

Kiwis are set to be treated with the most spectacular "supermoon" since 1948 - if bad weather doesn't hide it from us.

This man wanted his wife-to-be to have a truly unique engagement ring, so he carved her one by hand out of a meteorite rock.

Research to find new Earth-like planets, clean up our waterways and boost our health have just received $65 million from the Marsden Fund. We look at 10 of the best.

An asteroid is buzzing by today. But we had advance warning of the 25m chunk of rock and ice thanks to a new NASA 'intruder alert' system.

Kiwi scientists have helped reveal the universe in glorious technicolour, with incredible new images reflecting on one of the widest-ever radio-wave surveys of space yet.

Two astronomers have spotted strange flashes from a set of stars. They say it's an alien civilisation. Others say it's just a glitch.

A New Zealand-based researcher is investigating "moonquakes" - a curious lunar phenomenon first discovered by Nasa's Apollo missions.

Astronomers say they are close to confirming the presence of a mysterious unseen planet 10 times the size of Earth.

The finding offers more evidence that the hypothetical giant planet does lurk at the outer edge of our solar system.

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Tomorrow morning a mission to Mars will touch down.

For as long as there have been lights in the night sky, humans have been coming up with names for them.

British scientists will face "six minutes of terror" this week as the Schiaparelli space probe plunges to the surface of Mars after a seven-month journey.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama has revived calls to send humans to Mars by 2030s - but even if astronauts get there, would they remember much of it?

Best of Business: The most powerful machine to fly from this country will be headed for orbit in a matter of months.