See the stunning photo shot by Aucklander Amit Kamble which was named Nasa Astronomy Picture of the Day earlier this week.

Nasa has found a twin Earth orbiting a star like the sun in the Milky Way which scientists say "would feel a lot like home".

Kepler 452b is so remarkable because it orbits its star at about the same distance that Earth orbits the sun.

A team member's view on what it took to get New Horizons all the way to the edge of the solar system.

Dwarf planet's icy mountains are equivalent of ten-and-a-half Sky Towers stacked on top of one another.

Nasa release amazingly detailed photos of Pluto - and there's a surprise: youthful mountains rising high above the dwarf planet's icy surface.

Meet the four astronauts going on the first commercial mission to space.

Nasa has blasted a new piece of kit into space - a virtual reality headset that will beam what the crew on the International Space Station see back to earth.

After giving scientists a heart attack at the weekend, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft seems to be recovering.

Antarctica's Larsen B ice-shelf is on course to disintegrate completely within the next five years, according to a study by US space agency Nasa.

An unmanned Nasa spacecraft has crashed on the surface of the planet Mercury, after it ran out of fuel.

The surface of Mars may still hold water - albeit the saltiest variety possible - according to scientists, after Nasa's Curiosity rover found evidence of liquid brine on the planet.

Paul Allen and Richard Branson are focusing on breakthrough spaceflight closer to home: cheap cargo trips to Earth orbit.

A small but ambitious group of investors has a novel plan to mine asteroids for fun and profit. But it is possibly illegal.

The US space giant has been linked to an apparent unauthorised flight over Wanaka yesterday morning by Sir Peter Jackson's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.

Following 10 days of unsettled weather in the wake of Cyclone Pam, Nasa will make its second attempt to launch its heavy-lift super pressure balloon.

Aballoon the size of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is scheduled to lift off above the scenic Central Otago town of Wanaka on Tueday and float 34km into space.

Nasa was last night celebrating the arrival of its space probe into the orbit of dwarf planet Ceres but Kiwi stargazers will have to wait several weeks to see any fresh footage from the Dawn probe.

Millions of tonnes of nutrient-laden dust are blown to the Amazon from one of the world's most barren places

Scientists in the Antarctic are to be trained in docking a Soyuz spacecraft on to the International Space Station as part of a series of spaceflight simulation.

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.

He works in a contact centre by day and in a Panmure halal butchery by night - but by 2026, Saeed Ghandhari could be manning the first human colony on Mars.

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

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.

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

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.