Rocket taking cargo to ISS as part of US$1.9bn project exploded after lift-off – and the whole frightening scene was captured on video.

'One giant leap for mankind', proclaimed Neil Armstrong from the moon's surface. Did that just underscore the status of women's future in space?

A glorious blood moon delighted skygazers in many parts of New Zealand last night.

Aucklanders might not get the best glimpse of tonight's total lunar eclipse, with cloudy skies and a few evening showers forecast.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos will team up with a Boeing-Lockheed Martin to develop US-made rocket engines, in competition with Elon Musk's SpaceX venture.

Nasa has awarded its first private contracts for ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station.

An asteroid nicknamed after a maligned dog and with the potential to cause catastrophic damage will pass within 40,000km of Earth this morning.

Satellites in orbit are routinely used for communication, imaging and navigation - yet many people don't understand how these satellites remain in space.

A geomagnetic storm has sparked auroras around both poles - helping set up a stunning photograph taken in Otago.

Researchers established that tiny life forms were thriving in a lake beneath 800 metres of pack ice, despite not seening sunlight or fresh air for around a million years.

Snaps taken of the 'supermoon' rising in New Zealand. The full moon tonight will be the largest until September 2015.

Skygazers are hoping for a break in the clouds tonight for a glimpse of the 'supermoon'.

A New Zealand-built rocket has shattered an altitude record after reaching speeds in excess of 2000 km an hour.

A "super-duper" full moon that is bigger and brighter than any other moon this year will appear in the sky on Monday morning.

Space enthusiasts have won a battle to force the authorities to release images from a spacecraft's decade-long interplanetary mission to hunt down a comet.

The New Zealand aerospace firm planning to launch a rocket to carry satellites into low earth orbit for a fraction of the cost of competitors.

The US space agency's Opportunity rover has now clocked more kilometres on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, Nasa has said.

Things aren't going as smoothly as SpaceX might hope in its quest to secure the US Military as a client.

NZ is joining the space race, with Rocket Lab building a world-first launch vehicle in Auckland to make it cheaper to send satellites in to orbit.

An orbital sex mission by five Russian geckos has gone from lust in space to lost in space.

Britain is to build a commercial spaceport that will be used to launch manned missions and commercial satellites.

Readers and photographers snapped these photos of the most recent supermoon seen across NZ's skies.

Stargazers are beaming at the prospect of an unusual supermoon phenomenon this year.

Astrophysicists are mystified after concluding that 80 per cent of the light in the universe appears to be missing.

A galaxy more than 12 billion light years from Earth is heading for a "red and dead" future because it is running out of the fuel needed to make new stars.