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Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new planet, the closest one ever detected outside our solar system.
Scientists are excited about the possibility a new planet orbiting around our sun's closest neighbour may have an atmosphere.
A Kiwi scientist is just one small step away from becoming a Nasa astronaut after being invited for an interview.
Canterbury University's Dr Sarah Kessans, who has made it to the final round of interviews for Nasa's astronaut programme, sits down for a quick Q&A.
Using a reflecting telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers have recently discovered exoplanet about 4.25 light-years from the Sun.
Astronomers are confused by the recent discovery of a mystery object orbiting around the sun backwards.
Rocket Lab's mission to send a rocket to the moon is a step closer to reality.
Government is looking to regulate how waste from rocket launches will be disposed of upon returning to Earth.
An asteroid set to narrowly miss Earth could cause 'immense suffering and death' years later if its orbit is changed when it passes dangerously near to our planet.
The US space physicist behind the Juno spacecraft's historic entry into Jupiter's orbit this month admits the whole concept seemed a pipe-dream at first.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot might be making the planet red hot.
Dwarf planet Ceres should be riddled with craters, but Nasa's scientists were surprised to find it was relatively smooth.
The NEEMO explorers say it's going swimmingly.
A scientist shares five reasons we might find alien life this century - and five we reasons we might not.
The number of operational satellites has jumped 40 percent in the past five years, with nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.
As the Apollo 11 astronauts hurtled toward their historic rendezvous with the moon 47 years ago this week, they kept a hand-drawn calendar on the wall of their command module.
Do we need to be worried about pieces of junk falling out of space and into our atmosphere?
A striking photograph taken from a Nasa flying observatory at a height of 44,000ft shows the extent of light pollution caused by a NZ's city's street lights.
The space robot formerly known as Kepler should have stopped working in 2013, but scientists just confirmed new planets found in its second life.
Nasa's Juno mission has survived Jupiter's extreme radiation and is getting ready to send back never-seen-before pictures of the largest planet in our solar system.
NZ company Rocket Lab is a step closer to lift off, today saying it had done a deal for three satellite launches .
Sheep, hills, remoteness and rockets. New Zealand is about to blast off from distant Mahia and into the world's $350 billion space economy.
Way out in space, so far that it takes a message nearly an hour to reach earth, the Nasa craft Juno is doing what the classical mythologists anticipated.
More than 180 people have died in flooding along the Yangtze River in China after torrential rain. Eleven million dollars is going being pumped into Dunedin Hospital, for a new critical care unit.
On July 4, Juno will give us an unprecedented look at our solar system's weirdest planet.
WATCH: NASA has tested rocket boosters that it hopes will power its new rocket to fly to Mars.
The largest planet in the solar system may finally give up its secrets thanks to a new probe.
It's a scary, but potentially real threat facing the world by 2030. But one expert warns China's cyber war capabilities will be more dangerous than anything else happening today.
Super-powerful electric winds may have blown it into space.