Space

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

Planet Business: Dynamic pricing hits the pint, Wall Street IPOs return and USA Today seeks ‘Taylor Swift reporter’

Exoplanet K2-18 b has the potential for having a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water ocean-covered surface

Data collected by the rover has been transmitted to Earth for analysis

Thursday night is the final chance to spot the rare lunar phenomenon until next occurrence in 2037

Celestial phenomenon, which will not occur again until 2037, will last for three full nights giving maximum opportunity to catch a glimpse

Chris Horn: Harvesting solar power from space, and nuclear fusion, are two possible ways forward for the planet’s energy crisis

Chandrayaan-3 mission gives Narendra Modi a geopolitical boost after Russian crash

Scientists and engineers celebrated from a Bengaluru control room as India landed a spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, on the moon's south pole for the first time.

Irish scientist lead the processing of the new image image taken by a mid-infrared instrument

Russia has been racing against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is set to land on the moon this week

The lander, Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976, is expected to touchdown on the moon on August 21st

Three passengers were flown to the edge of space and experienced zero-gravity

Spacecraft more than 12 billion miles away returning data once again after its antenna was successfully repointed

The Sturgeon Moon, a bigger and brighter moon, has delighted skygazers across the world.

Two supermoons - one a rare Blue Moon - expected to appear in skies this month

Television: The Irish comedian’s new show, Wonders of the Moon, has the gently rambling quality of a lecture conveyed by a funny, eccentric professor

Crew was notified of problem through Russian communication systems within 20 minutes of a Nasa power outage

Tickets, costing up to $450,000 for a flight, will allow people to travel to the edge of space from Earth’s surface

Trinity College scientists help to open new frontier in research of the universe

Saudi astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi - part of an all-private Axiom mission - has become the first Muslim and Arab woman to venture into space. Video: Reuters

Our most urgent preoccupation must be how to establish reliable two-way communication

Observed phenomenon occurred before Sun and Earth formed and is creating largest cosmic explosion witnessed

SpaceX has successfully launched its next-generation Starship cruise vessel for the first time with the the vehicle exploding in the sky minutes later.

‘This will help bring us closer to answering one of the most important questions facing humanity today – if we are alone in the Universe’

Space strategy is reaping dividends with industry and research groups consistently providing groundbreaking technologies to the ESA

The James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t disappointed, delivering stunning images of the cosmos of unprecedented clarity

Relativity Space’s Terran rocket fails three minutes after Cape Canaveral launch and crashes into Atlantic

Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft smashed into space body last September, 11m km away from Earth

Forecasters expect them to reappear tonight

‘Technical glitch’ blamed for cancellation of flight to International Space Station

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

Researchers from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies celebrate breakthrough in how stars are formed

Space rock travels over southern tip of South America only 3,540km above the planet’s surface

2023 BU will zoom over the southern tip of South America overnight, within orbit of satellites

Local council gives every school a ‘weather station’ to improve local forecasting

That’s Maths: Just as for music and maths, structure is the factor linking mathematics and poetry

Cork-born photographer Rhiannon Adam to take off in remarkable artist residency on ‘dear moon’ mission

Rocky planet is similar in size to Earth and may have an atmosphere, but is likely to be as hot as Venus

Eirsat-1 is unaffected by UK satellite launch failure, but a Vega C rocket which it was scheduled to use has failed to reach its 700km orbit