Asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth could have shot life to Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn…
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Asteroids may have shot life to Mars - scientists
Opening doors far into space and close to home
NZ Science Media Centre staff and their Oz counterparts put together their 10 top picks for the world's biggest science…
Rover finds evidence Mars once habitable
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date that Mars was once a habitable planet capable of supporting primitive…
Plan to use moon for solar power
A Japanese construction company is proposing to solve the energy problems facing Japan, and ultimately the entire planet…
Comet ISON's dance with sun gives mixed signals
Comet ISON is teasing the solar system as it dances with the sun and it's giving astronomers mixed signals.
Icy comet zooms toward sun
For months, all eyes in the sky have pointed at the comet that's zooming toward a blisteringly close encounter with the…
Surprisingly sluggish sunspots
The surface of the sun has been surprisingly calm of late - with fewer sunspots than anytime in the last century - prompting…
Cosmic explosion a 'monster'
Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth…
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Star-gazers focus on sun-grazer
A visiting comet could disintegrate when it runs a scorching gauntlet past the sun, treating star-gazers…
Satellite hits Atlantic - but what about the next one?
The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on an orbit that passed…
Scientists expect satellite crash next week (+vid)
The European Space Agency says its GOCE research satellite will crash to Earth on Sunday night or during the day on Monday…
One-tonne satellite to hit Earth
A one-tonne satellite operated by the European Space Agency has run out of fuel and will fall back to Earth in an unknown…
Gwynne Dyer: India's Mars trip as vain as the rest
The Curse of Mars also applies to Asian countries, writes Gwynne Dyer. About two-thirds of the attempted…
India launches first mission to Mars
India has launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies…
Milky Way rife with planets in habitable zone
The Milky Way galaxy is teeming with Earth-like planets that are not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist…
Massive meteorite pulled from lake
It flew across Russian skies and caused a ground-shaking shockwave that hurt 1200 in February. Now the huge meteorite has…
Asteroid offers clues to possibility of life beyond our solar system
The remnants of a lost water world of rocks and oceans have been discovered by astronomers - who said they had found the…
Nasa's 'paranoid' ban on Chinese
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Some prominent American astronomers are boycotting a meeting on exoplanets because Nasa has banned Chinese…
Air and Space Transport
Sandra Bullock's space buddy
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Space thriller Gravity has been hailed as "the best space film ever", a movie that is one giant leap…
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Seas warming off South Island coast - scientists
Sea temperatures off the eastern South Island could warm by as much as 2C within the next century, a consortium of scientists…
Related Links
- NASA
- Carter Observatory - National Observatory of NZ
- Stardome Observatory, Auckland
- Auckland Astronomical Society
- Royal Astronomical Society of NZ
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing
- NZ Space Flight Association
- Kennedy Space Center
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA Mars 2004 (broadband Flash site)
- Astronomical Data from Land Information NZ
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