Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neig...

The first dissection of the world's rarest whale will be carried out in Dunedin this week. The male ...

Humanities and social sciences research funding will be slashed under the Government's cuts to the M...

Scientists at Antarctica's Scott Base swapped labcoats for ski gear this weekend, completing a 24-ho...

"Forests" of red coral have been filmed for the first time off Fiordland's coast, thrilling research...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently-funded jet to break the soun...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and ...

New Zealand scientists studying the brains of rugby players have made a significant breakthrough tha...

Children under the age of eight should not be drinking slushies with an additive called glycerol, re...

A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters...

The Donald Trump administration's spending cuts have put paid to a celebration of 150 years of scien...

A New Zealand woman who found her biological father with the help of a genetic testing company is al...

Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system,...