Speaking at the World Government Summit, Elon Musk talked about aliens, AI, commercial space flights and a 'universal income' for every human.

Source: Youtube / Space-Agencies

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has described the moment he captured the Taranaki volcano from aboard the International Space Station.

Companies are heading to court in a battle for a contract to repair satellites with space robots.

NASA is heading back to Wanaka to launch its super balloons which orbit the globe performing scientific monitoring.

NASA has confirmed it will return to Wanaka to launch it's super-pressure balloon which will see the 18.8 million cubic foot balloon

The shallow, snaking, braided channels of Canterbury's Waimakariri River - and the heavily-developed pastureland around it - have been captured by a NASA satellite.

Five of New Zealand's leading visionaries have just teamed up for a new high-tech showcase of Kiwi ingenuity.

While many of us may find the sounds of chewing or breathing off-putting, for some they're unbearable - and new research has shown their brains are going into overdrive.

With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world. This panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on September 15, 2006.

Mining on the moon has moved a step closer and billionaire Peter Thiel, along with Kiwi firm Rocket Labs, are at the forefront of making history.

Vladimir Putin stopped by Moscow University and treated students to a stirring rendition of a traditional Soviet space song.

NASA has launched the most sophisticated weather satellite ever launched, and the pictures are incredible.

Photos taken by a new satellite launched last November have been released by NASA and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Source: CNBC

There's a strange side to one of the country's wealthiest citizens.

New Zealand is ready to join the space race, with Kiwi start-up Rocket Lab on the brink of launching a rocket to the moon.

Alien megastructure? Or natural mega-disaster? Astronomers have crunched the numbers and come up with a new explanation for the erratic flickering of a distant star. Indigestion.

The Moon may have formed through the merging of 20 smaller 'moonlets' following asteroid strikes on the young Earth, a new theory suggests.

Herald science reporter Jamie Morton talks to Stardome astronomer Dr Grant Christie about the stars we can see above us in the sky this summer.

This week a comet will be visible from Earth for the first time. In February another object is approaching, but Nasa can't work out what it is.

The newly formed Red Nova will burn so brightly in the constellation Cygnus that everyone will be able to see it.

Study found sparks occur in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near poles.

Fast radio waves have been recorded hitting earth in a regular pattern since 2001.

Source: WSJ

Rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves have puzzled astronomers. Now the signals have finally been tied to a source.

The world could be set to end in October this year, when a giant mysterious planet collides with our own - according to a conspiracy theorist.

COMMENT: What will you do with the extra time added to today to get clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation?

A posterior tattoo canvas and erotic eggplant are among the site's oddest hits of 2016.

The Star Wars series featured a man-made planet called the Death Star which destroys other worlds with a giant laser.

Mythical planets, nearby Earth-like worlds and unprecedented missions to Jupiter and Saturn. We learned a lot about our universe in 2016.