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Dr Lisa McNamee looks to space for the benefit of terrestrial medicine
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Is there life on Europa? Nasa probe heads for moon with more water than Earth
Planet Business: Fake-wine gang arrests, the Greggs champagne bar pop-up and luxury stocks exposed to China’s economic slowdown
Boeing’s new boss must build bridges with Seattle factory floor to end permacrisis
With quarterly figures dues on Wednesday, chief executive Kelly Ortberg is unlikely to have a comprehensive strategy by then to calm investor nerves
Northern Lights: All you need to know about ‘breathtaking’ display visible ‘all over’ Ireland
Display predicted to be so strong that if it were perfectly clear over the island, people as far south as Kerry would see it
Belfast astronomer to take part in European Space Agency’s groundbreaking asteroid mission
Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth
Tiny glass beads suggest moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth
Chemical make-up of samples indicates volcanic lunar activity up to 120m years ago
Rose of Tralee 2024: ‘When nobody knew about the festival everyone wanted to come’
Tralee is ‘a place where love is in the air’ as the Kerry festival returns once again
Study raises hope of finding life on Mars after indication of water, scientists say
Seismic data suggests huge reservoir exists within fractured igneous rocks more than 10km below surface of ‘Red Planet’
Meet the Irish women aiming to become space trailblazers
Rosemary Coogan from Antrim is bringing Ireland one step closer to having its first ESA astronaut
Are we deceiving aliens about the reality of life on this planet? Or just ourselves?
The Golden Record on Voyager 1 brings a curiously optimistic collection of sounds and images for potential discovery by non-Earthlings
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took Earthrise photo, dies in plane crash
Anders was one of first three humans to orbit moon in 1968
SpaceX’s Starship rocket records first fully successful test flight
Rocket designed by Elon Musk’s company reached altitude of more than 210km at a speed of 25,700km/h
Euclid space telescope reveals exquisite images of dark universe
Astronomers have spotted dozens of rogue planets floating free from their stars
Boeing calls off first astronaut launch because of valve problem on rocket
Issue involved an oxygen relief valve on the upper stage of the company’s Atlas rocket, engineer says
Voyager 1 space probe transmits data again after remote Nasa fix from 24bn kilometres away
First human-made object to go out of solar system has been in operation for almost 50 years and crossed into interstellar space in 2012
Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists
Sharp increase in temperatures over past year has surprised many scientists
Total solar eclipse races across North America as Ireland sees snippet of the action too
Eclipse mania grips North America as partial solar event visible in Ireland on Monday evening
Solar eclipse frenzy grips America as stargazers set out to heartland for glimpse of rare phenomenon
Americans are gearing up for a rare astronomical display that Nasa says will cause the daytime sky to darken ‘as if it were dusk or dawn’
SpaceX’s Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight
Spacecraft flew around globe for first time but contact was lost during final stages of test as it re-entered atmosphere
Moon lander Odysseus ‘alive and well’ after it tipped sideways on lunar surface
Spacecraft is believed to have caught one of its landing feet on the uneven lunar surface and tipped over
US commercial space flight successfully lands on moon for first time
Touchdown by Intuitive Machines’ unmanned lunar lander marks first return by country to moon in 50 years
US private Moon lander Odysseus launches from Florida
Moon lander could be first private private mission to land intact on lunar surface
Russian cosmonaut sets world record for most time spent in space
Oleg Kononenko is expected to reach a total of 1,000 days in space on June 5th
Data from rover confirms ancient lake sediments on Mars
Findings support theory that parts of Mars once had water and may have harboured microbial life
US company’s moon lander disintegrates in Earth’s atmosphere
Peregrine craft suffered a propulsion fault that dashed any chance of lunar touch-down and was directed to burn up over Pacific
Feline frontier: in space no one can hear you miaow
Planet Business: Nasa experiments, seasonal indigestion, Masimo’s Joe Kiani and CEOs who left their jobs in 2023
Nasa image shows large solar flare that disrupted radio signals on Earth
Flare caused two hours of radio interference in some sunlit parts of the world
Long-term survival in space remains a final frontier
Radiation and psychological challenges remain formidable obstacles to mankind exploring our solar system or beyond
Frank Borman, astronaut who led first Apollo mission to the moon, dead at 95
Borman and two other crew members flew some 750,000km and orbited the moon 10 times during trip to space, paving way for Apollo 11
Massive space explosion observed creating elements needed for life
Irish astronomer makes key observation leading to detection of gamma-ray burst
Space sector funding hampered by rules on defence investment, says expert
‘Unresolved conflict’ must be addressed to bring in more early-stage investment to the Irish industry, IIEA event hears
Deis schools link up with International Space Station via amateur radio
Contact with ISS ‘continues to be one of the best practical demonstrations of science and technology in action’
Limits to Growth reports vindicated as Earth faces overshoot and collapse
The critical lesson of the Limits to Growth reports – that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a tiny, fragile, finite planet – has escaped our consciousness
Asteroid samples: What is Nasa’s Osiris Rex mission and why is it so important?
A capsule containing asteroid chunks touched down in Utah after a 1.9bn-kilometre journey
Nasa’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from Osiris-Rex spacecraft
Pebbles and dust delivered on Sunday represent the biggest haul from beyond the moon and will help scientists better understand how Earth and life formed
Lovely in late season? Massive planet 120 light years away studied by Nasa might have an ocean
Planet Business: Dynamic pricing hits the pint, Wall Street IPOs return and USA Today seeks ‘Taylor Swift reporter’
Marilyn Lovell obituary: Astronaut’s wife turned heroic archetype amid Apollo 13 drama
An object of fascination for the news media, the inspiration for movie and TV characters and a figure in history books, her courage and dignity captivated the world
James Webb Telescope captures unprecedented detail of Ring Nebula
Irish scientist lead the processing of the new image image taken by a mid-infrared instrument
Russia joins race to find water on moon with launch of lunar lander
The lander, Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976, is expected to touchdown on the moon on August 21st
Nasa restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to silence
Spacecraft more than 12 billion miles away returning data once again after its antenna was successfully repointed
Airbus forms joint venture in bid to replace International Space Station
Plane maker and US start-up Voyager join race to build commercial alternatives before ISS is decommissioned
Nasa briefly loses contact with International Space Station, relies on backup systems for first time
Crew was notified of problem through Russian communication systems within 20 minutes of a Nasa power outage
Ireland’s X Files: Records reveal Government confusion over UFOs
Requests to open an embassy for extra terrestrials among correspondence to Government ministers
How Ireland is building a strong reputation in Europe’s space programme
Space strategy is reaping dividends with industry and research groups consistently providing groundbreaking technologies to the ESA
Big-bang model survives new test
The James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t disappointed, delivering stunning images of the cosmos of unprecedented clarity
Astronomers observe cloud after Nasa crashed spacecraft into asteroid
Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft smashed into space body last September, 11m km away from Earth
From postwar Rome to Cape Canaveral to Troubles, Fr Michael Keaveney has seen it all
One of Ireland’s longest serving priests, ordained 72 years ago, believes the laity will play a key role in the Catholic Church
NASA, SpaceX postpone launch of next space station crew at 11th hour
‘Technical glitch’ blamed for cancellation of flight to International Space Station
The Antrim woman preparing for new role as astronaut
Rosemary Coogan has joined the European Space Agency’s astronaut corps as its Artemis programme aims for a presence on the moon before a mission to Mars
Irish-designed telescope instrument delivering ‘astounding’ views of universe
Researchers from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies celebrate breakthrough in how stars are formed
School children using weather stations to help monitor climate change patterns
Pupils in 16 schools across Fingal sent their findings to Met Éireann and Nasa
Asteroid ‘the size of a small truck’ to pass Earth in celestial near miss
2023 BU will zoom over the southern tip of South America overnight, within orbit of satellites
Fingal schools’ weather data to be used by Nasa for climate change modelling
Local council gives every school a ‘weather station’ to improve local forecasting
Space quest: How orbital data might improve life on Earth
Amazon and Axiom want to exploit space for human gain but danger from space junk lurks above Earth’s atmosphere
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