Scientists have just found space travel is apparently bad for your hair.

Despite a perfect record of successful spaceflights, ULA chief Tory Bruno is under pressure to compete with SpaceX.

The extrasolar planet HD 20782, about 117 light years from Earth.

New Horizons spacecraft has transmitted spectacular images back that reveal surprises. Here's a summary of just a few scientific results to date.

Heston Blumenthal has described his nerves as he hosted a dinner party from earth for Major Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

WATCH: Video of yesterday's total solar eclipse proves that a plane provides the best possible vantage point to view the natural phenomenon.

Talk about in-flight entertainment - a number of flights next week will give passengers the best seat in the world to view a solar eclipse.

When astronaut Scott Kelly arrived in Houston on Thursday, he was about two inches taller than when he left for the International Space Station a year before.

American Astronaut Scott Kelly returns from space, having grown two inches during his time in orbit. / AP

Three years after hundreds of webcams captured a 19m-wide space rock exploding over a Russian city.

On Earth, we're used to eclipses that last just seconds: but imagine one that puts you in the dark for three and a half years.

Auckland company Rocket Lab has signed another customer to launch small satellites into space later this year.

As news of the biggest scientific breakthrough in recent times broke today, a retired Bay of Plenty resident sat down and read the headlines with excitement.

After decades of effort scientists have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space.

Scientists announced Thursday that, after decades of effort, they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space.

Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going.

British astronaut Tim Peake has shared aerial images of New Zealand from space on Twitter this morning.

Images of New Zealand taken from space and the international space station.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly uses hydrophobic paddles to move a ball of water on the International Space Station.

For the first time in more than 10 years it is possible to see all five "bright" planets together in the sky.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has released video of its rocket tipping over upon landing and exploding.

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

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

At the Johnson Space Center, Winston Aldworth meets men from the brave past and bold future of space travel.

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

"For an analogy, astronomers often refer to black holes as 'eating' stars and gas. Apparently, black holes can also burp after their meal," Eric Schlegel.

The day after SpaceX successfully landed, Elon Musk is talking about the future of building a city on Mars.

A British astronaut was forced to leave an answer phone message for his parents after calling them from the International Space Station to find that they had "popped out".

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