A still summer night seems like the perfect time to just lie on your back gazing at the stars.

Alien worshippers are urging the Govt to admit extraterrestrial life is out there after the release of thousands of secret files.

NZ's most famous UFO sighting was a moving cluster of bright lights five times the size of a large fishing vessel that dazzled and spooked the occupants of a small plane, files released today reveal.

Thousands of people turned their eyes to the sky for the first lunar eclipse visible from NZ in three years.

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A front rolling across the country is set to obscure the first lunar eclipse in NZ skies in almost three years.

Alien life has been among us all along, according to new biological findings announced by Nasa.

This week, a tiny United States robot spacecraft will make a dramatic encounter in deep space.

NZ entrepreneur Derek Handley has paid a deposit for one of the first rides on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights.

The reality of using space ships as we do passenger jets is merely a few years away.

Bigelow Aerospace & United Launch Alliance have an agreement to push for the creation of an orbiting Lunar Depot. Source: Bigelow Aerospace

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, launching to deploy the SAOCOM 1A satellite, lit up the skies across California.

New 'space taxis' could be blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida as soon as in 2015, according to Boeing.

Who knew New Zealand had a space programme? In truth, with the exception of Auckland company Rocket Lab's launch of a rocket 100km into the sky last November, we can't claim to have tried visiting the inky void.

Citizen cyberscience is a grass-roots initiative that harnesses the power of online volunteers.

Nasa is planning to send a mission to one of the most inhospitable places in the universe – the sun itself.

Astronomers and scientists in New Zealand are excited about the arrival of a rare celestial phenomenon.

The New Zealand sky could be lit up by the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, tonight after American space agency Nasa detected a solar blast heading towards earth.

NZ tech company Rakon is buying the assets of French rival Temex, gaining access to satellite and space station transport applications to complement its existing European operations.

The Child Cancer Foundation wants to give young cancer patients a very special, but far-flung, gift.

The IceCube Observatory the identification of the first source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. Source - YouTube/IceCube Neutrino Observatory