The Pope's astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, is visiting Great Barrier Island today. He talks to science reporter Jamie Morton about faith, science and little green men.

Rocket Lab has moved closer to a trial launch from its East Coast site by doing a deal with Airways to keep its launch airspace clear.

It's one of the most famous quotes of all time but experts say Neil Armstrong's accent may be to blame for his claim his first words on the moon were misquoted.

Scientists believe they have found all asteroids near Earth the same size as that which killed the dinosaurs, but many other smaller ones remain undetected.

Life on Earth has its challenges but what about life on Mars? Can humans ever survive on our neighbouring red planet?

Strange radio activity picked up from the outer reaches of the universe proved the latest false alarm of finding extra-terrestrial life.

NASA has paid Russia US$3.4 billion over the past decade to fly its astronauts to space -- a number that could grow.

Philae was finally found wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P.

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SpaceX plans to relaunch a used Falcon 9 booster, the first time the company will refly a recovered rocket stage.

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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.

Welcome to the era of the space tour guide.

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.

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.

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.