NASA's Hubble space telescope has provided the best images of the Matariki star cluster. Hubble has been in continuous orbit around the Earth for 34 years and it measured the cluster at about 440 ...

Look towards the horizon at dawn this week and you’ll start to see the Matariki star cluster rising in the north-eastern sky (expected to be visible by June 29). As part of this year’s ...

With Matariki (the appearance in the sky of a group of stars known as the Pleiades, signifying the Maori new year) happening in June, what better way to celebrate than by making kumara the centre ...

The reemergence of a cluster of stars known as Matariki also marks Maori New Year, which is now a public holiday in New Zealand. Maori astronomy is also a focal point of Horizon Tours' Dunedin ...

I’m a Pakeha but I’m proud that the historic Pakeha-Maori relationship that gives New Zealand a unique difference from other former British colonial possessions. This extends to food in a ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a visit to Wainuiomata Intermediate to mark Matariki in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AAP Image/Hagen Hopkins ...