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'Touchdown confirmed!' Nasa rover lands on Mars, sends back first images

Watch Nasa's rover make its treacherous landing on the Red Planet.

Jeff Tallon: ET hype defies objectivity

Opinion: Overstatement of 'life out there' claims should sound alarm bells.

Life on Venus? The picture gets cloudier

New York Times: Researchers who detected unusual gas in the atmosphere stand by findings.

Arab spacecraft orbiting Mars

Craft is circling the red planet after almost seven months and 483 million kilometres.

US and UAE follow closely as China receives its first Mars image

Mars is about to be at centre of an extraordinary confluence of interplanetary missions.

To get on this SpaceX flight, you don't have to be rich, just lucky

New York Times: A new era is opening in spaceflight.

'Never forgotten': 35 years since Challenger disaster

Families of fallen astronauts have marked the 35th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

How space became the next 'great power' contest between the US and China

New York Times: Biden has yet to indicate what he plans to do with the Space Force.

First woman, next man on moon will come from these Nasa 18

NASA has named the 18 astronauts who will train for its Artemis moon-landing programme.

Karl Puschmann: The terrifying reality of Netflix's Alien Worlds

The truth, along with millions of aliens, is out there...

Editorial: The galaxy-sized gap between what we can and do achieve

EDITORIAL: For every big achievement, there have been many uninspiring moments this year.

Japan capsule carrying asteroid samples lands in Australia

Capsule contains samples that could provide clues to origin of solar system.

Jeff Bezos v Elon Musk: The rivalry fuelling the modern space race

Times: How the rivalry between the two richest men on the planet went galactic.

China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft touches down on the moon

The lander is scheduled to spend two days on the moon running tests and collecting rocks.

Auckland, we have a problem: Student satellite lost in space

Rocket Lab carried the first NZ student-made satellite into space.

Space race: 140 Kiwi businesses chasing a trillion-dollar opportunity

New Zealand's space race is far bigger than Rocket Lab, writes Kevin Jenkins.