Stunning shot reveals the enormity of the ISS against the darkness of space. But can you see the astronaut?

Rocket Lab has attracted new financial backing from one of the United States' oldest venture capital firms and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin to put it on course.

Photo taken from International Space Station shows the Cook Strait and North and South Islands in glorious detail as they are caught by glint of the setting sun.

An Auckland man could end up swapping his job at the Ministry of Social Development for a one-way ticket to Mars.

A 24-year-old astrophysics students at Birmingham University was yesterday named on the shortlist of candidates selected to set up the first human colony on Mars. ,

Queenstown man Verdun Waghorn was a UFO sceptic - until he photographed one. Now he wants to know if the truth is out there.

For those who missed the spectacle of a 4.6 billion year old chunk of space rock streaking across NZ skies, it could be a long wait till the next show.

A "blinding" flash, intense explosion and sonic booms experienced over much of the country last night were probably caused by a meteor, experts agree.

Bag full of priceless mementos from the most famous space mission of all found stuffed in a closet by Neil Armstrong's widow.

Entrepreneurs are expanding the boundaries of rocket and satellite technology as the US makes room for private enterprise.

A year ago I started subscribing to Scientific American, a publication my older brother has read for years.

Former director of Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre Jim Kennedy spent almost 40 years with Nasa. The retiree now travels, speaking on leadership.

Hopes of finding water-based life in our galaxy took a leap forward after five Earth-sized planets were found around a distant star.

A giant doorway to another galaxy may exist at the centre of the Milky Way, a study suggests.

Dramatic geothermal landscape of Waimangu volcanic rift valley a miniature Mars for space buggy inspired by next robotic rover Nasa plans to land on red planet.

Only two weeks into the new year, the sun has sent out some crazy streams of radiation.

New Zealand's Lake Tekapo has been ranked one of the best spots in the world for stargazing.

Eight new planets have been discovered orbiting at a distance where oceans and life could exist - and two are the most similar to Earth found to date.

A lonely spacecraft is nearing Pluto after a 4.8 billion-kilometer journey lasting almost nine years.

Holidaying star-gazers this week have the chance to observe a huge chunk of ice and gas hurtling through the night sky faster than a speeding bullet.

You can take a role in testing the effect of warming skin on memory. Or you can involve yourself in a bid to land a spaceship on the Moon....

The Rosetta mission, which has for the first time put a spacecraft in orbit around a comet and landed a robotic probe on its surface...

It's not evidence of "little green men" but intriguing "burps" of methane have been recorded by Nasa's Curiosity Rover - which may be from primitive microorganisms.

Qantas is diverting its planes away from central Sydney to free up space for authorities dealing with the siege in a city cafe.

Kiwis will have a chance to see one of the most world's spectacular meteor showers with the naked eye in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

A proposed mission to the moon led by British scientists could pave the way for the construction of a lunar observatory.