Space

India's space agency has carried out the first in a series of tests flights ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025.

On 4 May 2022, NASA's InSight lander detected the largest quake yet recorded on Mars, one with a 4.7 magnitude - fairly modest by Earth standards but strong for our planetary neighbour.

Each year, a New Zealand social enterprise runs a space research incubator to help explore space-related technologies for climate change. Kadambari Raghukumar talks to the founders of Spacebase.

Sir Russell Coutts has leased his SailGP manufacturing factory to Rocket Lab – and his specialist carbon composite workers are part of the deal. 

National is promising a Minister for Space, a Prime Minister's Space Prize for school students, and two new sites for aerospace and space testing, if elected.

The government is pledging $5.4m to help build runway and hangar facilities at Kaitorete on Banks Peninsula to support the aerospace industry.

Astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The question is instead: when will we find it?

Scientists have made a key discovery about antimatter - a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began.

The entire community of Naseby has decided to turn down the lights – and reach for the stars.

Searching through a catalogue of more than 600 galaxies, Nathan Deg stumbled upon two that seemed perfectly gift-wrapped.

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.