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.

NZ is joining the space race, with Rocket Lab building a world-first launch vehicle in Auckland to make it cheaper to send satellites in to orbit.

An orbital sex mission by five Russian geckos has gone from lust in space to lost in space.

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.

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.

Sovereignty in outer space is always a tricky subject, but out of all the lifeless rocks in the Solar System it was safe to say Mars was more American than most.

After weeks of taunts by Elon Musk's spunky space start-up, Amercia's most established rocket-launch company, ULA, is finally pushing back.

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.

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.

Between 2000 and 2013, the Earth was hit by 26 asteroids that exploded with a force of between one and 600 kilotons – an average of one every six months. The asteroids weren't detected in space and only detonated in Earth's atmosphere. The B612 Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes.

Most people don't realise that mobile phones, the internet, ATM machines and stock markets, many farms, and even emergency services rely on satellites.

As members of an elite band of cosmic explorers, they are among the few to have gone beyond the final frontier and looked down on the Earth from space.

Star gazers on the east coast of the North Island have had the best view of the blood moon tonight, MetService says.