Scientists announced Thursday that, after decades of effort, they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space.

Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going.

British astronaut Tim Peake has shared aerial images of New Zealand from space on Twitter this morning.

Images of New Zealand taken from space and the international space station.

A British astronaut has tweeted epic photos of New Zealand from space on his Twitter account.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin completed another successful unmanned rocket launch in West Texas with the same vehicle as November and with a safe landing.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly uses hydrophobic paddles to move a ball of water on the International Space Station.

For the first time in more than 10 years it is possible to see all five "bright" planets together in the sky.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 booster had a "hard landing" and broke a landing leg on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

At the Johnson Space Center, Winston Aldworth meets men from the brave past and bold future of space travel.

Retired NASA astronaut Fred Haise, of famous failed lunar mission, Apollo 13, gives a guided tour though the Houston Space Centre, Texas

"For an analogy, astronomers often refer to black holes as 'eating' stars and gas. Apparently, black holes can also burp after their meal," Eric Schlegel.

The day after SpaceX successfully landed, Elon Musk is talking about the future of building a city on Mars.

A British astronaut was forced to leave an answer phone message for his parents after calling them from the International Space Station to find that they had "popped out".

SpaceX is heading back into orbit today - with an ambitious attempt to land its reusable rocket on land.

A New Plymouth teen is one of two young Kiwis chosen to attend a prestigious American space school next year.

Phobos is just 3700 miles from the surface of Mars, over 60 times closer than we are to our own moon. But the emotional bond between Mars and Phobos is probably a little rocky, according to some new findings.

Otago Museum director Dr Ian Griffin takes a close look at an image of the International Space Station displayed at the museum's new Perpetual Guardian Planetarium, which opens to the public next month. The $1.1 million planetarium would provide the public with a state-of-the-art insight into the latest in science communication, Dr Griffin said. ''This gives us a tool we've never had before, to do amazing things.'' Source: ODT/YouTube

It started as a visual gag involving the moon, a radio telescope and bit of Photoshop - but it turned into an internet hit.

Nasa's Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water. On Friday, scientists reported that even today, the solar wind is stripping away about 100 grams of atmospheric gas every second. That's about a quarter-pound a second. Maven scientist Dave Brain told reporters he can't help but imagine hamburgers shooting out of the Martian atmosphere.NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has observed this process in action – by measuring the speed and direction of ions escaping from Mars. This data visualization compares simulations of the solar wind and Mars atmospheric escape with new measurements taken by MAVEN. Source: NASA Goddard/Youtube

Nasa has released this stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent, taken 15 minutes after the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest pass by Pluto in July this year.

Space activities will be on the agenda at a joint conference between New Zealand, the US, the UK, Canada and Australia being hosted in Wellington over the next two days.

Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies independent of Earth by the 2030s, claims Nasa.

It turns out that Pluto might have more going for it than even the blue-sky thinking scientists of the New Horizons space mission might have figured.

Nasa has released images of real regions on Mars where new Hollywood film The Martian takes place.

Nasa has released more than 8,400 never-before-seen images of from their Project Apollo Archive.

For Nasa getting humans to Mars is an aspiration bordering on an obsession, but the bold talk glosses over technical and political realities.

The night sky plays a starring role in United Nations World Space Week, writes Sarah Ell.