Space

Expert Reactions | Published: 16 February 201322 February 2013

UK SMC: Residents of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk are recovering after a meteor broke up over the city causing […]

In the News | Published: 23 May 201223 May 2012

Kiwi space scientists are playing a key role in the fist commercial space mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 09 March 201209 March 2012

Two solar flares that occurred on the sun on 7 March have caused a large cloud of charged particles (a […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 September 201126 September 2011

Our friends at the Australian Science Media Centre have collected useful background, resources and commentary ahead of the re-entry: NASA’s […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 15 February 201118 February 2011

UPDATE: ATV Launch successful (see below) This week, top scientists from the European Space Agency are in New Zealand for […]

In the News | Published: 22 June 201011 December 2024

British scientists say that the sun’s coronal loops vibrate like the strings of a guitar, and claim that they have […]

In the News | Published: 31 May 2010

University of Canterbury scientists are helping their NASA counterparts to design new types of scramjets – super-fast planes which could […]

In the News | Published: 17 March 2010

New Zealand scientist Sir Ian Axford has died aged 77. He worked on space probes, and was an expert on […]

In the News | Published: 21 January 2010

Eloise Gibson of the NZ Herald reports that, by the end of the decade, a NASA scientists believes we may […]

In the News | Published: 20 July 2009

The New Zealand’s Herald editorial on the significance of the Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago today: AN excerpt: […]