Amazing NASA photos have revealed new land off the coast of Kaikoura, raised out of ocean the by last month's 7.8 magnitude earthquake

Sending cargo into space has just got a whole lot easier.

History-making astronaut Buzz Aldrin has always set his sights on the stars.

New Zealand is pumping more cash into the world's most ambitious science and IT project, bringing its investment in the gigantic Square Kilometre Array to more than $2 million.

NASA is calling on the public for help in solving a very important, but slightly less glamourous issue.

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.

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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Microbiologist Steve Pointing has searched for life in the world's most extreme deserts. His findings will help Nasa prove that life once existed on Mars.

Radiation sickness. Brittle bones. Alzheimers. None of these will deter explorers in their quest to establish a foothold on Mars, says Apollo 11 hero Buzz Aldrin.

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.

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.

With rain that would feel like 'death by a thousand cuts' this planet would be terrible to visit.

A PhD student at the University of Auckland is frustrated at having to fight to find an appropriate space to breastfeed her child.

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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