Space
NASA taps SpaceX for possible ISS rescue mission
NASA is exploring whether SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer crew a ride home after a Russian craft sprung a leak.
10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away
A year on since the historic launch of the most powerful infrared telescope in human history, we admire and explore some of the best images it delivered in 2022.
NASA discovers two new 'water world' planets
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer telescopes have made a discovery which has brought them a micro-step closer to confirming that planets beyond our own might harbour Earth-like oceans. Video
Probe swoops down on Io, Jupiter's volcano moon
Juno will get much, much nearer to Io over the course of the next year.
An eye in the sky to detect methane emissions
MethaneSAT is the first New Zealand government funded space mission. A joint project between the United States' Environmental Defense Fund and New Zealand, the project will see a methane sensing… Audio
An eye in the sky to detect methane emissions
MethaneSAT is the first New Zealand government funded space mission. A joint project between the United States' Environmental Defense Fund and New Zealand, the project will see a methane sensing…
Audio'We're at a sort of tipping point': Fears drone and rocket builders face mass exodus
The aerospace industry is warning companies face with too much red tape and are on the verge of quitting New Zealand.
Monitoring methane - A New Zealand space mission
How can a methane-detecting satellite help us tackle our agricultural emissions and detect gas leaking from pipelines, wetlands, farms and crops across the world? Peter Griffin speaks to the project… Audio
'Dust devil' sound recording captured on Mars
Researchers are learning more about the weather on Mars with a new audio recording of a giant dust-loaded whirlwind known as a dust devil.
The sound clip of the storm was combined with sensor data to… Audio
New Zealand aerospace industry says it is facing too much red tape
New Zealand's aerospace industry says the sector's facing too much red tape, which is forcing some companies to move offshore.
With approval to test drones and rockets sometimes taking more than a… Audio
Artemis I splashes down in the pacific
NASA's historic Artemis I mission to the moon has come to an end.
The Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean this morning.
The mission is NASA's first uncrewed flight of the rocket it… Audio
NZers' stunning aurora pics featured in international collection
Two incredible photos by South Island photographers have been featured in the 2022 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year publication.
South Island space plane gets development money
A space-travel company in the South Island is one step closer to getting an aeroplane into space after receiving a whopping 20 million dollar funding boost. Dawn Aerospace, based in Tekapo, received… Audio
Construction to begin on world's biggest telescope
It is one of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century and will even search for extra-terrestrials. Audio
Chinese astronauts board space station in historic mission
Three Chinese astronauts have arrived at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history.
Satellite constellations threatening the night sky - astronomers
Astronomers say the very existence of their field of science could be threatened by the huge and increasing number of low-flying telecommunications satellite constellations now in the sky . Audio
Going back to the moon in an unmanned craft
NASA's colossal new rocket has soared into space for the first time, sending a next-generation capsule on a crewless voyage around the Moon and back 50 years after the final Apollo lunar mission. … Audio
NASA's Artemis rocket on course for Moon after epic launch
NASA's colossal new rocket has soared into space for the first time, sending a next-generation capsule on a crewless voyage around the Moon and back 50 years after the final Apollo lunar mission.
Artemis 1 rocket takes off headed to the moon
After two aborted attempts in August and September NASA's Artemis 1 rocket took off on Wednesday night from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
It is the most powerful space rocket ever launched.
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Space the final frontier: Space News with James Parr
This week - all things going to plan - NASA's Artemis rocket should blast into space. The massive, unmanned rocket will take astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo programme… Audio
