Sunday 22 May, 2022
The Premier League leaders face title rivals Liverpool on Sunday.
The galaxy candidate is some 13.5 billion light-years away, and scientists are speculating what exactly it is.
The space exploration advocate makes the case for continuing to look up and learn from the cosmos.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson made the voyage on 11 July, narrowly beating Bezos.
It will initially have about 200 people and a first-year budget of $40 million.
Retain Sam next Sunday and they are up there with the greats, says Ray Cosgrove.
A new view from a million miles away.
As no-one has ever seen it really – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is currently as close to the distant (former) planet as any probe in history.
They launched a crowdfunding campaign today and hope the ‘sexploration’ will begin in 2016.
We have much to thank Hubble for at its 25th birthday.
Many of the women finalists scored higher in training than their male counterparts.
The spacecraft will orbit at 705 kilometres above Earth and will provide the first complete picture of the effects of climate change.
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Astronaut Reid Wiseman is on the case.
The planet is snappily named Kepler 186f.
“We have not seen anything like this before,” said one scientist.
Astronauts’ hearts also got weaker because the heart doesn’t work as hard in space, say researchers.
Officials in China say there are new hopes that the Jade Rabbit lunar rover can be repaired after suffering a malfunction.
China had another first this month with its moon rover – but its neighbours are not far behind.
It is the first time in almost four decades that a spacecraft has landed on the moon.
From a man on the moon to space wonderlust, black holes and incredible aliens.
New findings from NASA’s Curiosity rover found only tiny amounts of methane gas in the atmosphere, making it unlikely that there was life on Mars.
Two groups of astronomers have used data from ESO telescopes to make the best three-dimensional map yet of the centre of our galaxy. Turns out it’s shaped a bit like a peanut…
The Boomtown Rats front-man accepted to offer to go up to space as part of the commercial Space Expedition Corporation flight.
“We are a long way from the Terminator, or the Matrix” says Nasa chief historian.
This little guy is the Yuri Gagarin of Iran’s monkeys. He looks pretty unhappy about that, though.
NASA has launched a new service that emails people when the International Space Station is visible in the skies over where they live.
The planet is made up mainly of graphite and diamond and was spotted zooming around a nearby star.
It took eight years of work, more than €2 billion, and just a bit of luck, but Curiosity touched down on Mars just after 6.30am Irish time.
NASA gave Google Maps photographers unprecedented access to the centre.
From exercising in space to 3D animations, here’s how Ireland is contributing to global research for future space missions.
Mankind’s fascination with space has long sparked fantasies of living away from Earth, but is this any closer to becoming a reality?
The irregular-shaped moon is less than 23 km wide, according to NASA. No wonder they never spotted it before now…
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be in Dublin next week and he’ll be answering questions from people on Twitter.
The spacecraft, which was launched in 1977, appears to be on the verge of becoming the first spaceship to leave the solar system. Bon voyage…
