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Astronaut Sunita Williams will celebrate her birthday tomorrow - but in a location she might not have expected just three months ago. Audio

US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore won't be returning to Earth until February, after NASA decided it couldn't risk bringing them back on a potentially-faulty Boeing Starliner

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Nisha Shankar is chief training officer at NASA's Johnson Space Centre. She takes astronauts who are fresh out of basic training and teaches them the skills they need to thrive on the International… Audio

In 2017, long-time inventor and astronomy enthusiast Hugh McCarroll was named one of 15 finalists in a global competition designed by NASA. The idea was to crowdsource ideas for how to collect human… Audio

Tech commentator Peter Griffin joins Kathryn to talk about the significant spend included in this week's Australian federal Budget. Could Prime Minister Chris Hipkins pledge to make next week's New… Audio

On Monday, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission in more than 50 years. The space agency hopes… Audio

Climate change is an "existential threat to everyone on spaceship Earth" according to NASA's deputy administrator Colonel Pam Melroy.

She, and her boss Bill Nelson, are in New Zealand this week… Audio

NASA astronaut and microbiologist Dr Kate Rubins has been touring New Zealand taking part in a programme to promote STEM subjects. STEM is science, technology, engineering and math subjects, and the… Audio

Now to Bluff, where locals have had the chance to meet a real NASA astronaut.

Dr Shannon Walker is the veteran of two space missions and was in Southland to launch a new science showcase.

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 The Double Asteroid Redirection Test marks humanity's first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object - in this case the redirection of a stadium-sized asteroid. Audio

"Images of an unseen universe" have been released by NASA today and yesterday. Jan Elderidge is head of the Physics Department at the University of Auckland. She talks to Jesse about how she's using… Audio

Researchers from the University of Hawai'i have looked into how asteroids can sneak up on us without detection. The study was undertaken by astronomer Dr Richard Wainscoat, who joins the show to… Audio

The asteroid 4660 Nereus did a flyby of the earth earlier this morning. Planetary astronomer Dr Michele Bannister, from Canterbury University's School of Physical & Chemical Sciences, discusses 4660… Audio

In the first ever mission of Earth's "planetary defence", Nasa has launched a mission for a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid, and knock it off its path. It's part of a plan to save… Audio

Later this month the James Webb Space Telescope will be shot into space, and when it reaches its destination - approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth - the massive telescope will slowly… Audio, Gallery