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.

This might just be one of the last things you ever read if you believe the doomsayers who believe the end of the world is nigh. No, really.

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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.

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.

The sun has gone completely "blank" for the second time this month.

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.

NASA wants YOU to get amped for the "Journey to Mars".

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Stratolaunch airplane is designed to carry rockets and "air launch" them into orbit.

Nasa's high-tech aeroplane flying out of NZ to study the skies of the Southern Hemisphere has been grounded after a crack was discovered in one of its engines.

It's morning in the Murchison, a desolate, sunbaked corner of the midwest of Western Australia, and a trio of wedge-tailed eagles are circling.

Any rocky moons orbiting the Jupiter-like planet could theoretically have liquid water.

NZ and the US sign a deal setting rules around rocket technology and providing a register on what's been blasted into space from our part of the world.

The gravitational wave detector is the "quietest place known to humankind".

The world's largest flying observatory has arrived in New Zealand for a series of cutting-edge night-flying missions to help unlock the mysteries of the universe.

A team of Kiwi scientists hope to answer some of the biggest questions about our universe, by joining one of the most ambitious astronomy projects ever undertaken.

Facebook is gearing up to live chat astronauts on the International Space Station tomorrow afternoon.