The death throes of this star have been captured in an image thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

See the stunning photo shot by Aucklander Amit Kamble which was named Nasa Astronomy Picture of the Day earlier this week.

Nasa has found a twin Earth orbiting a star like the sun in the Milky Way which scientists say "would feel a lot like home".

Astronomers have found a planet they say is "the closest twin to Earth" ever seen. Named Kepler-452b, it is the smallest planet discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a star, and has been described as an "older, bigger cousin". What makes this planet remarkable is that it orbits its star at about the same distance that Earth orbits the sun. What's more, its home star looks to be similar to our sun. Source: NASA Ames Research Center/Youtube

Kepler 452b is so remarkable because it orbits its star at about the same distance that Earth orbits the sun.

Billionaire Yuri Milner is pledging $100m to find extraterrestrial life by scanning radio signals from star systems.

SpaceX boss Elon Musk says a recent explosion was the company's first failure in seven years and maybe complacency played a part.

A rock worth US$5.4 trillion is flying by Earth around noon today.

Amazing new images of Pluto have revealed icy mountains on the dwarf planet's surface. Nasa'a New Horizons probe is beaming back high-resolution images that show mountains 3.35km high. Source: NASA/Facebook

Nasa scientists played The Final Countdown to mark historic mission - and there are more pictures to come.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is speeding towards Pluto for the first-ever flyby on July 14, 2015. Scientists are eager to collect data on the dwarf planet’s chemical and atmospheric makeup, and the Ralph spectrometer will do just that. Instrument scientist Dennis Reuter discusses Ralph, Pluto, and exploration of our solar system’s last frontier, the Kuiper Belt. Source: NASA Goddard/Youtube

Meet the four astronauts going on the first commercial mission to space.

For the scientists who have spent nine years waiting for Nasa's New Horizons space probe to reach Pluto, the mission has been a labour of love.

First people to launch from American soil since the shuttle was retired will be on a commercial flight.

Nasa has blasted a new piece of kit into space - a virtual reality headset that will beam what the crew on the International Space Station see back to earth.

After giving scientists a heart attack at the weekend, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft seems to be recovering.

NZ tech company Rocket Lab has unveiled plans for a Canterbury launch pad for its revolutionary battery powered rockets.

The eclipse-like phenomenon, known as a stellar occultation, took just minutes but thick cloud in Auckland blocked the view for New Zealand and American scientists.

Our country will next week offer international scientists a unique window to a quick and rare astronomical event that last occurred a decade ago.

While the floods that swamped Whanganui appeared devastating enough from aerial pictures, the view from space has offered another perspective altogether.

The International Space Station has released high-definition footage of Earth, taken from space. Source: International Space Station/Facebook

The United States space programme is famous for what it invented and also for how much it spent putting men on the moon.

A graphic designer from Sweden wants Earth to adopt its own flag for use in space.

An unmanned Nasa spacecraft has crashed on the surface of the planet Mercury, after it ran out of fuel.

An unmanned Russian spacecraft is spinning out of control and is set to plummet to Earth next week.

The Russian spacecraft that went rogue yesterday has begun an unstoppable descent into Earth's atmosphere, experts have said.

Dark matter may not be so dark after all, after scientists witnessed the mysterious cosmic entity interacting with the universe around it in a new way.