Space

A huge red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon, prompting an immediate investigation by the country's national space agency.

After a busy 2024, space agencies worldwide are gearing up for even more ambitious goals in 2025.

The largest solar storm on record lit up skies around the globe in the 1850s - but New Zealand, a technological backwater, escaped the worst of it.

The probe endured temperatures of up to 982 degrees Celsius on its mission.

For years, have physicists believed the universe was expanding equally in all directions, and used the concept of "dark energy" to explain this.

Analysis - Operation Olympic Defender aims to protect space from the likes of exploding satellites, but NZ is keeping quiet about its involvement.

Laws will be introduced to stop foreign military or intelligence interference in radar and other space infrastructure being built here.

A meteor shower considered to be one of the best will peak this weekend, but a full Moon may impact how much of it we see.

It was 4am on a Sunday morning, and Darryl Jones had just been rattled awake when he noticed something peculiar outside his window.

NZ relies on countries like the US for most space systems, but is looking to launch a sovereign satellite.

The government is backing off plans to build rocket launchpads south of Christchurch despite receiving no written advice on the issue. Audio

Five young Māori have had the opportunity to attend a week-long space camp in the US, a first of its kind partnership aimed to boost the number of Māori working in science fields.

Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn't relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth.

The astrophysics field "didn't even exist" in Malaysia in the 1970s: "It was that New Zealand attitude that spurred me on."

The four-member Crew-8 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida after nearly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory.