NASA

NASA has set the controls for the heart of the Sun. Its newest spaceship, the size of a car, will set out tomorrow for the Sun itself. The Parker Solar Probe will get within 4 million miles, closer… Audio

NASA scientists don't want to just hear the Sun, they're hoping to get up close and nearly touch it. NASA is sending the Parker Solar Probe - a robotic spacecraft - closer to the Sun than any one or… Audio

Dr Jennifer Wiseman is a NASA astrophysicist and  senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope. She's considered one of America's thought leaders on science policy. She is also Christian… Audio

NASA is on a mission to land people on Mars and is building the world's most powerful rocket to get to the red planet. The rocket, called the Space Launch System (SLS) will produce more thrust at… Audio

Until now astronauts have had to send mysterious microbes and organisms back to earth to figure out what they are.

But for the first time, NASA astronauts have successfully sequenced DNA and… Audio

An enthusiastic Italian got in touch on Twitter this week with stunning pictures of New Zealand seen from space.  But he wasn’t as far out as many media outlets seemed to think. Audio

Other potentially habitable planets are far away and hard to find but there are over 10 billion in our galaxy, says NASA astrophysicist Dr Natalie Batalha. Audio

When Sinead O'Sullivan from Armagh Northern Ireland was 15, she won the golden ticket; a chance go to NASA's space camp. It changed her life. Audio

Sinead O'Sullivan, who is originally from Northern Ireland, graduated in aerospace engineering from Queen's University in 2011. She is a research fellow at the Center for Climate and Security, where… Audio

What would your message to intelligent life on another planet be? Audio

After years of being the only female in many of her high school technology and science classes,  Alexia Hilbertidou founded GirlBoss New Zealand - a network of young women passionate about science… Audio

The world's largest airborne observatory has returned to New Zealand to gather data from stars, planets and galaxies that can only be observed in the Southern Hemisphere. Maja Burry took flight on the… Video, Audio

Next year a NASA spacecraft will travel to within 6.2 million kilometres of the sun – that's seven times closer than any spacecraft before it and close enough to get very, very hot. Audio