Space Exploration
Is NZ ok with carrying out America's space business?
It's one of our most successful companies - but how much do we know about what Rocket Lab is carrying into outer space, and who it's carrying it for? Audio
Our place in the space race
The global foray into outer space is taking on new dimensions with breakthrough discoveries and successful missions to asteroids and planets.
Liz Garton discovers New Zealand industry has its feet… Audio
Direct satellite hit may have seen Russians caught behind
The commentators for the cricket match between the Black Caps and Sri Lanka were among those who thought the fireballs that zoomed through the night sky were a meteor shower.
Rocket Men - Man's first journey to the Moon
Fifty years ago, in December 1968, the US launched its Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. Commander Frank Borman, command module pilot James Lovell, and lunar module pilot Bill Anders flew 230,000 miles… Audio, Gallery
Mars underground lake raises possibility of life
Scientists say they've spotted what appears to be a sizable salt-laden lake under ice on the southern polar plain of Mars, raising the possibility of life on the Red Planet. Jillian Kitchener reports.
…'Learning about the universe increases your empathy'
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
Emer Reynolds - The Voyager in deep space
Irish director Emer Reynolds' documentary, The Farthest, picked up three awards at the Dublin International Film Festival earlier this year. The Farthest tells the story of NASA's Voyager spaceships -… Audio
American astronaut John Glenn dies
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator and war hero, has died. Video, Audio
Schiaparelli probe crash-landed on Mars
A probe that should have landed on Mars was destroyed when it crashed into it at high speed, the European space agency has acknowledged.
Naked Science
Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. The discovery of 2.8 million year old human remains in Ethiopia, the exploration of the dwarf planet Ceres is about to begin after a 7 year space voyage, and why we… Audio