Two astronauts make emergency landing after booster rocket failed after launch.

Sir Richard is in a race with billionaires to be the first to send tourists to space.

Regional hubs and hiring plans abandoned.

Radar to track small satellites and space debris is the first in the Southern Hemisphere.

NASA stands by its contractor, as Musk faces lawsuits and scrutiny.

Japan space agency scientists are thrilled by the images being sent to Earth.

First movements made by any human-made spacecraft across the surface of an asteroid.

A tossed net has managed to capture space junk in orbit-cleanup experiment.

The quirky Yusaku Maezawa showed his more hardnosed side in May, costing a lot of jobs.

The observatory is at the centre of a mystery creating a buzz here on Earth.

Elon Musk's company is staying tight-lipped about who bought the ticket until next week.

Nasa may let companies buy the naming rights to its rockets in 'commercialisation' drive.

New research claims the reason Pluto lost its planet status is "not valid".

New pictures show the hole in the space station had been deliberately drilled.

It is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe - and could be hiding in plain sight.

Life could exist on the huge number of "water worlds" in our solar system.

Hole caused by a small meteorite led to a drop in cabin pressure.

Armstrong and Aldrin going to the moon, marked one of the proudest moments in US history.

Stratolaunch is on a mission to make excursions into the Earth's orbit "routine".

Scientists have found that the universe we live in is not the first one to ever exist.

Asteroid travelling more than 32,400 km/h considered to be a "potential hazardous" object.

The impact of farming, forestry and climate change on our lakes is captured from space.

Last time Earth's poles reversed was 780k years ago, if it happens again we're in trouble.

NZ's East Coast is in the firing line for NASA's space junk.

EDITORIAL: Commercial space travel is still a fearful prospect.

Nine Kiwis are booked on Virgin Galactic's space tourism flights moving towards lift-off.

For all its lofty ambitions, SpaceX is yet to put a human in space.

A Kiwi physics experiment has managed to do what decades of international research hasn't.

Unprecedented quest to get closer to the Sun gets off to a good start.

NASA has postponed the historic launch of the first spacecraft to fly towards the Sun.