A New Plymouth teen is one of two young Kiwis chosen to attend a prestigious American space school next year.

We might be spending the whole day in the kitchen, but the space station astronauts already had all the hard work done for them by NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory. It will only take the crew about 15 to 20 minutes to rehydrate their freeze-dried Thanksgiving meal. Source: International Space Station/Facebook

This week, Blue Origin launched an unmanned vehicle called the New Shepherd to the edge of outer space.

Phobos is just 3700 miles from the surface of Mars, over 60 times closer than we are to our own moon. But the emotional bond between Mars and Phobos is probably a little rocky, according to some new findings.

Otago Museum director Dr Ian Griffin takes a close look at an image of the International Space Station displayed at the museum's new Perpetual Guardian Planetarium, which opens to the public next month. The $1.1 million planetarium would provide the public with a state-of-the-art insight into the latest in science communication, Dr Griffin said. ''This gives us a tool we've never had before, to do amazing things.'' Source: ODT/YouTube

It started as a visual gag involving the moon, a radio telescope and bit of Photoshop - but it turned into an internet hit.

Nasa's Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water. On Friday, scientists reported that even today, the solar wind is stripping away about 100 grams of atmospheric gas every second. That's about a quarter-pound a second. Maven scientist Dave Brain told reporters he can't help but imagine hamburgers shooting out of the Martian atmosphere.NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has observed this process in action – by measuring the speed and direction of ions escaping from Mars. This data visualization compares simulations of the solar wind and Mars atmospheric escape with new measurements taken by MAVEN. Source: NASA Goddard/Youtube

Nasa has released this stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent, taken 15 minutes after the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest pass by Pluto in July this year.

It turns out that Pluto might have more going for it than even the blue-sky thinking scientists of the New Horizons space mission might have figured.

Nasa has released images of real regions on Mars where new Hollywood film The Martian takes place.

Nasa has released more than 8,400 never-before-seen images of from their Project Apollo Archive.

For Nasa getting humans to Mars is an aspiration bordering on an obsession, but the bold talk glosses over technical and political realities.

The night sky plays a starring role in United Nations World Space Week, writes Sarah Ell.

Who we find attractive isn't determined by some complex genetic construct, but simply by our own personal experiences.

Kiwi space company Rocket Lab may be flying spacecraft to the lunar surface as soon as 2017.

Kiwi on the shortlist for a one-way ticket to Mars pretty excited about NASA's water discovery.

Kiwi stargazers miss out on a lunar eclipse but as the moon skirts its closest to earth we can still see the "supermoon".

A supermoon lunar eclipse taking place this weekend will make the Chinese Moon Festival one of the most auspicious ever, an expert says.

A rare astrological event next week could herald the end of days, according to some Christian groups.

As miraculous stories go - this is one of the highest order. Literally.

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka - who has spent more time in space than anyone else - has returned safely to Earth.

Six people have shut themselves inside a dome in Hawaii for a year, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping Nasa prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.

Nasa's Curiosity rover used its inbuilt 'selfie stick' to capture this 360 degree image of itself sitting in the Marias Pass region of Mars.

A new study out of the US has shown women who have just one drink a day are at a heightened risk of alcohol-related cancer.

NASA forced to deny claims sweeping the internet that an asteroid will strike Earth next month wreaking widespread devastation.

Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly shares this image of an aurora lighting up the Earth's horizon.

Even though it's difficult and can feel unnatural, we should try our best to understand causality as a chain.

Auckland-based Rocket Lab has released details of prices and the online booking system for carrying "nanosatellites" into space.

Kiwi firm Rocket Lab says a deal it has signed with Nasa will give it scope to launch in a wider variety of locations.