Space
James Webb telescope: Baby star launches giant jets and shocks
Imagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would it look like?
Long Read: The MethaneSAT saga
By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan? Audio
The warnings before NZ's spending on measuring cattle burps from space
How did New Zealand come to invest $29m in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan that will not improve New Zealand's methane estimates?
Orionid meteor shower: Where and when to see it in NZ
An astronomer says tonight will be the best time to see the Orionid meteor shower; as long as skies are clear it will be visible with the naked eye.
India launches test flight ahead of sending man into 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.
Scientists surprised by source of largest quake detected on Mars
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.
Space technology for climate change
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. Audio
From the sea to the sky
Sir Russell Coutts has leased his SailGP manufacturing factory to Rocket Lab – and his specialist carbon composite workers are part of the deal. Audio
National to establish a minister for space if elected
The National Party wants to establish a minister for space to streamline and speed up regulation for the sector. In a new policy announced at Rocket Lab yesterday, the party also promised to… Audio
Watch: Luxon announces space policy
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.
Government pledges $5.4m to support aerospace industry
The government is pledging $5.4m to help build runway and hangar facilities at Kaitorete on Banks Peninsula to support the aerospace industry.
Satellites hindering astronomer's ability to monitor earth
More and brighter satellites in the sky are hindering astronomer's ability to monitor space from Earth. A new study has found a satellite launched in 2022 shines with the same intensity as the eighth… Audio
Why finding alien life might just be a matter of time
Astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The question is instead: when will we find it?
Scientists get closer to solving mystery of antimatter
Scientists have made a key discovery about antimatter - a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began.
Turning down the lights to reach for the skies
The entire community of Naseby has decided to turn down the lights – and reach for the stars. Audio
Rocket Lab apologise for failed launch
A Rocket lab Electron rocket has failed soon after take-off in Māhia.
Rocket Lab has apologised after an "issue" occurred two-and-a-half minutes into flight at 7 o'clock Tuesday night, after it had… Audio
NASA's UFO report: no evidence of aliens
A long awaited report into the existence of UFOs by a panel of NASA experts has been released in the past few hours, finding no evidence that aliens are behind the unexplained phenomena, but the space… Audio
Two mysterious, gift wrapped galaxies spotted by Australian radio telescope
Searching through a catalogue of more than 600 galaxies, Nathan Deg stumbled upon two that seemed perfectly gift-wrapped.
Nasa finds tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world
Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.
Images show 'promising' signs of life in space
Images taken more than a million miles away show promising signs of life.
NASA's James Webb Telescope may have detected the presence of a molecule in planet K2-18b's atmosphere, which on Earth we… Audio