Skygazers are hoping for a break in the clouds tonight for a glimpse of the 'supermoon'.

A New Zealand-built rocket has shattered an altitude record after reaching speeds in excess of 2000 km an hour.

A "super-duper" full moon that is bigger and brighter than any other moon this year will appear in the sky on Monday morning.

Space enthusiasts have won a battle to force the authorities to release images from a spacecraft's decade-long interplanetary mission to hunt down a comet.

Kiwi-developed technology will assist a historic hook-up when a spacecraft makes its long-awaited date with a comet next week.

The New Zealand aerospace firm planning to launch a rocket to carry satellites into low earth orbit for a fraction of the cost of competitors.

The US space agency's Opportunity rover has now clocked more kilometres on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, Nasa has said.

Things aren't going as smoothly as SpaceX might hope in its quest to secure the US Military as a client.

Britain is to build a commercial spaceport that will be used to launch manned missions and commercial satellites.

Readers and photographers snapped these photos of the most recent supermoon seen across NZ's skies.

Stargazers are beaming at the prospect of an unusual supermoon phenomenon this year.

Astrophysicists are mystified after concluding that 80 per cent of the light in the universe appears to be missing.

A galaxy more than 12 billion light years from Earth is heading for a "red and dead" future because it is running out of the fuel needed to make new stars.

India has declared itself the world's leader in cheap space exploration after its prime minister claimed that its Mars mission will cost less than the Oscar-winning science fiction film Gravity.

Astronomers have discovered an alien planet that could offer some of the most Earth-like conditions seen to date in the galaxy.

Google could soon be going Galactic if it joins forces with Sir Richard Branson's space division.

Lockheed Martin has won a highly anticipated contract to build a "space fence" for the Pentagon that can track pieces of debris floating in orbit around the Earth.

The creator of 'Big Brother' is to turn the "world's toughest job interview" - for a one-way ticket to Mars - into the ultimate reality show.

A German astronaut who used to study at a NZ university has tweeted a picture of Banks Peninsula from high above Earth.

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has accused one of his main competitors of hiring a high-ranking Air Force acquisitions official in exchange for awarding a lucrative contract without competition.

26 passengers, about to embark on a zero gravity journey aboard a Boeing 727 plunging and soaring in 3660m arcs over the North Atlantic.

Most people associate Nasa with rocket science but now the American space agency has turned its attention to rocket salad.