The culture in NZ is, no doubt, a leading element of what has been achieved by Team NZ in bringing this catamaran campaign to its impending pinnacle, Keith Turner.

Eva the mascot cow is on her way back to Tauranga after being lifted more than 36,500m to the edge of space and crash landing in Nevada's Death Valley.

It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.

Scientists at the University of Auckland believe they are one step closer to finding life in outer space.

Early in its life the moon was much closer to Earth and the tides were a lot bigger and more frequent.

Technically, Pink Floyd had it wrong. The space-facing side of the moon isn't dark. Not that you'd know that, given we always see the same side of our nearest neighbour.

When the Apollo 11 mission blasted off carrying the folks who would be the first to walk on the Moon it was powered by 5 F-1 engines. Those engines burned for a few minutes, and then fell into the Atlantic Ocean, as they'd done their job.

The carbon fibre Solar Impulse plane has the wingspan of a 747 but only weighs as much a Honda Prius.

Dennis Tito is planning a private mission to Mars in 2018. Inspiration Mars Foundation aims to inspire and wants to take advantage of the way the planets line up in 2018.

Britain has committed £88 million ($160 million) towards the construction of the world's largest telescope.

Forget Bruce Willis detonating a nuclear bomb to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid - all you need to do to divert an oncoming space rock is give it a lick of paint.

Sub-audible infrasonic waves from the meteor which exploded over a remote region of Russia last week were recorded 15,000km away in Antarctica.

A popular Canadian astronaut orbiting the earth 16 times a day is beaming his “Space Kitchen” cooking show back down to his fans.

A stunning new map of the surface of Mercury has revealed the planet to be a "fascinating, dynamic and complex world".

A 46-metre cosmic rock has hurtled safely past Earth this morning.