Taichi Nakamura is one of the lucky 150 people to fly south of NZ to see the phenomenon.

Renowned scientist Dr Brian Greene talks a "new era of astronomy" and a Kiwi innovator.

The world's most detailed human data collection wins our biggest cash award for science.

Earth is just shy of 4.6 billion years old and a couple hundred million years later the planetary blob began to cool form its first crust.

That's the goal of a bold new project between Kiwi researchers and the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation.

Pluto fans are attempting to reignite one of astronomy's most contentious debates: What is a planet?

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

Volcano under one of the world's busiest flight paths has erupted almost 40 times this year.

Slashing pastoral stock numbers by up to 35 per cent has been suggested among ways to push New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2100.

A selection of the best of the Wellcome Awards that celebrate the art of science illustration

Our planet's spiders wolf down between 400 and 800 million tonnes of food each year.

A chimpanzee has been filmed using tools to apparently clean the corpse of another chimp.

Crowd-sourcing new ideas from fans has built Lego a solid future.

A top educator says streaming children into top, middle and bottom classes is steadily dragging down Kiwi students' learning.

A new smartphone app allows users to check Auckland's air quality at any given time.

Unnecessary prescriptions could lead to serious long-term consequences.

Our alpine parrot may be much smarter than we think, scientists say.

The killer whale was likely the same one that stranded in Whangarei Harbour last year.

Have you ever wondered what is happening in your little sleepy head's mind?

Scientists describe November jolt as an "incredibly complex earthquake" in which some land was offset by as much as 12 metres.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

The impact quakes can have on city structures has been made frighteningly clear over recent years.

A new study blames as much as half the decline in Arctic sea ice over recent decades on natural causes.

MPs are expecting furious opposition to proposals on fluoridated drinking water as public hearings kick off this week.

The power-packed storm meteorologists have dubbed the "Tasman Tempest" dumped more rain on Auckland than typically falls for the whole of March.

A sinkhole in New Lynn could be bigger than it looks. So what causes them? We asked an expert.

NZ is not only a beautiful country on the ground but it also looks incredible from the sky.

Researchers crunched the numbers on your ride.

A Kiwi researcher is set to peer inside the minds of porn users.

A Kiwi scientist meeting in Brazil with world climate experts discusses a new report assessing what an extra 1.5C of warming would mean for the planet.