Who gets to go to space?
Orthopaedic surgeon and former British paralympian John McFall was chosen for a bold experiment to see whether a lower-limb amputee could meet the demands of space flight
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Medicine’s final frontier: How space is changing what we know about health
A new generation of doctors is working at the intersection of medicine and space
Helicopter crash victim and tech founder Niall Crosby left will of €16.5 million
Mr Crosby founded successful London-based data-processing software company AG Grid
SpaceX’s Starship rocket for Mars mission completes nearly flawless test flight
Tenth time lucky for Elon Musk’s firm as largely successful mission was likely a relief to both SpaceX and Nasa
Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 moon mission that inspired a movie, dies at 97
American astronaut played by Tom Hanks in Hollywood depiction of space disaster
Space for everyone: What designing for the moon can teach us about living on Earth
The emerging movement in space architecture is a sign that new frontiers are becoming future concerns
Blast off: Aer Lingus to support Ireland’s first astronaut
The airline will support the scientist and researcher in traveling to her training for the space flight
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid: An imperfect addition to the lesbians-in-space genre
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s use of modern phrases is jarring in this 1980s-set story of two women joining Nasa
How Trump spat threatens Elon Musk’s business empire: ‘Nobody on the right or left is gonna buy a Tesla’
Billionaire Elon Musk faces rare convergence of threats - collapsing brand loyalty, shaky revenues, and mounting legal and regulatory risk
Europa is our best bet of finding other life in our solar system
Nasa’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will loop around Jupiter on a course that will carry it by Europa 49 times over four years
Trump administration’s assault on science focused and co-ordinated
Salient question is how much damage can be done over four years and what comes afterwards
Europe’s moonshot: Argonaut and the Irish engineer leading the way
Cork-born Dr Neil Murray is lead engineer on the European Space Agency’s ambitious lunar lander project
The James Webb Telescope: Viewing the universe from Lagrange Point L2
Successor to Hubble Space Telescope investigating how the first galaxies were formed
What’s the weather like on the sun?
In a billion years’ time the sun will become hot enough to boil our oceans
Will the US respond to AI rivals in the same way it took on Soviet Union in the space race?
America's desire to put man on the moon brought about huge cultural change
Beyond the big bang: Irishman’s universal evolution theory challenges accepted cosmology
Julian Gough has unveiled a cosmological theory he believes may better explain the origins of our universe
Katy Perry’s 11 minutes as an astronaut were a waste of space. It could have been so much more
The backlash focused on the faux feminism in the marketing blitz, while genuine concerns about women in science vanished into a black hole
Katy Perry’s Blue Origin space jaunt is one giant stunt for womankind
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez and other celebrities boarding Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight feels like training for billionaires escaping Earth
Astronaut Chris Hadfield on Donald Trump: ‘It makes me angry because he’s treated our country like a chattel’
The Canadian former commander of the International Space Station shares thoughts on Ireland, pepper and the afterlife
Mission accomplished: Irish teens win top prize in Nasa space design contest
Second-level students eclipse thousands of global competitors with space-settlement plans
Which will get to Musk first: Tesla’s falling share price or Trump’s Maga clique?
Tesla’s market value has slumped in recent weeks while he has potentially big enemies among Donald Trump’s Maga clique
Nasa astronauts finally back on Earth after nine months in orbit
SpaceX capsule carrying Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and two other crew members splashes down off Florida coast
Nasa astronauts head home on SpaceX capsule after drawn-out space station stay
Homecoming of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams caps end to nine-month ISS mission
How Donald Trump ripped up US climate action plans
At a Time of Climate Crisis: The US president has been making false and misleading claims on wind energy for nearly a decade
Private lunar lander lands on the moon for outsourced Nasa missions
Blue Ghost lander carries drill, vacuum and other equipment for experiments
How will Elon Musk’s business empire benefit from his relationship with Trump?
The world’s richest man now holds huge sway over its most powerful leader — and the US government
Irish space race: domestic companies pushing the frontiers of AI, space stations and acoustic technology
Ubotica, Skytek and Lios are getting exciting projects off the ground
Hottest year on record as 2024 breaks 1.5 degrees global warming limit
A single year exceeding that limit does not mean the Paris Agreement threshold has been broken, but we’re ‘dangerously close’
Nasa spacecraft ‘safe’ after closest-ever approach to sun by a human-made object
Parker Solar Probe came within 6.2m km of solar surface on Christmas Eve, passing through star’s outer atmosphere
‘It’s given me the motivation to say, I’m not just a mam stuck at home with a disability who can’t do stuff’: Social enterprise Town Scientist
Sessions developed by engineer, scientist, writer and performer Dr Niamh Shaw inspire parents to start new conversations around the kitchen table
How keeping astronauts healthy can tell us what on Earth to do
Dr Lisa McNamee looks to space for the benefit of terrestrial medicine
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
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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