Falcon 9 rocket come close - but not close enough - to making the first sea landing of a booster rocket.

The biggest creature to ever walk the surface of the earth is revealed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 booster had a "hard landing" and broke a landing leg on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

Sewing "thermal undies" for a drone is just one way Kiwi scientists have overcome the extremes of Antarctica to capture the frozen continent's delicate plant-life from the air.

An Auckland biodiversity student is part of a team of scientists researching and monitoring humpback whales and their migration in the Cook Islands.

Herald science reporter Jamie Morton is spending the next week in Antarctica and will be filing a regular diary from Scott Base. Here is his second entry.

A simple jab could stop cravings for alcohol, cigarettes and junk food, say scientists.

Freezing wind storms. Temperatures plunging to -40C. Months of perpetual daylight or darkness. These brutal, barely imaginable conditions seem positively Martian.

Minerals released by giant icebergs capturing carbon is slowing the rate of global warming.

The uncanny appearance of Bowie's eyes was ideal for a performer who embraced ideas of the alien, the outsider, the otherworldly and the occult, writes Kevin Hunt.

In a paper published in the open access journal eLife this week, researchers say they have pinpointed what may well be one of evolution's greatest copy mess-ups yet.

Retired NASA astronaut Fred Haise, of famous failed lunar mission, Apollo 13, gives a guided tour though the Houston Space Centre, Texas

Scientists at the University of Auckland have proved that fish communicate to keep safe from predators in the same way animals such as chimpanzees and elephants do. The research - captured with an underwater GoPro camera is the first direct evidence that fish communicate to maintain group cohesion.

Scientists have developed insect-sized three-dimensional glasses to prove that praying mantises see their world in 3D.

Stuffing wool in a shark's nose suggests smell is vital for navigation.

German scientists think they have found the solution for young refugees who have entered Germany from war-torn countries and are seeking a better life.

Air-guitar playing may never be the same again, thanks to a Kiwi innovation that could transform interactive games like Guitar Hero.

A campaign calling for cleaner lakes and rivers has been launched this summer, as monitoring data shows many spots across the country remain unsafe for a dip.

Days of widespread rainfall might have washed out the holidays for summer campers, but for farmers in many places it's been merely a drop of what's needed to replenish drought-parched soils.

If I had been given one wish as a child, it would have been that the Tasmanian tiger wasn't extinct. To me, extinction was a tragedy.

Drones, the source of that new low buzzing sound coming from your local park, were one of the most popular tech Christmas presents this year.

Paul Charman is on his way to Campbell Island to investigate the legend of a Scottish princess abandoned there long ago

The Irish are descended from early Middle East farmers and from bronze metalworkers on the steppes around the Black Sea, scientists have found.

Average penis size revealed: Scientists attempt to find what is 'normal' to reassure concerned men.

Exploration of the solar system over the past year has produced exciting finds, writes Alan Duffy.

Twins Jayden and Xavier Boughey have to convince their classmates they're brothers.

It seems some of us have more holiday cheer than others, which raises the question about whether Christmas spirit actually exists.

In the year 2000, the CIA commissioned a report on what global trends will be in 2015. Here's what they got right and wrong.

SpaceX is heading back into orbit today - with an ambitious attempt to land its reusable rocket on land.