# space - Friday 18 October, 2019
# Space
# Space
There have been 227 spacewalkers since the first spacewalk in 1965 and all of them have included a male.
# space - Friday 30 August, 2019
# Rocket Man
# Rocket Man
US military chiefs claim the move is necessary to defend the country’s ‘way of life’.
# space - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
# Welcome Aboard
# Welcome Aboard
Fedor copies human movements and can help astronauts carry out tasks remotely.
# space - Saturday 24 August, 2019
# International Space Station
# International Space Station
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
# space - Monday 12 August, 2019
# Mix It Up
From The42
# Mix It Up
The Irish scrum-halves didn’t kick a single time during the win over Italy.
# space - Sunday 21 July, 2019
# The Irish For
# The Irish For
The calling to travel beyond the Earth owes itself to mythology as well as science, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
# space - Friday 7 June, 2019
# Star Tours
# Star Tours
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
# space - Wednesday 24 April, 2019
# Marsquake
# Marsquake
Nasa has said the new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior.
# space - Thursday 11 April, 2019
# Supermassive Big Star
# Supermassive Big Star
Bouman has herself became an internet celebrity after yesterday’s picture.
# space - Wednesday 10 April, 2019
# No Escape
# No Escape
“It’s like trying to photograph a golf ball on the Moon.”
# space - Friday 22 February, 2019
# Ideal Touchdown
# Ideal Touchdown
Meanwhile, Israel began a mission to make its first Moon landing.
# space - Thursday 14 February, 2019
# Mission Complete
# Mission Complete
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
# space - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
# Mars One
# Mars One
The company is in the red, as it were.
# space - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
# Fast Radio Bursts
# Fast Radio Bursts
The waves were discovered by Canadian scientists, who cannot explain their origin.
# space - Thursday 3 January, 2019
# Change 4
# Change 4
China plans to send its Chang’e 5 probe to the moon next year.
# The Great Beyond
# The Great Beyond
A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.
# space - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
# New Horizons
# New Horizons
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
# space - Friday 28 December, 2018
# New Horizons
# New Horizons
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
# space - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
# Research
# Research
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
# space - Thursday 13 December, 2018
# VSS Unity
# VSS Unity
“This is a momentous day and I could not be more proud of our teams,” Richard Branson said.
# space - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
# Interstellar
# Interstellar
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.
# space - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
# Mars
# Mars
A lovely sight this grim morning.
# space - Sunday 21 October, 2018
# Out Of This World
# Out Of This World
This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.
# space - Saturday 20 October, 2018
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.
# space - Thursday 11 October, 2018
# space - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
# The Farthest
# The Farthest
The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.
# space - Friday 24 August, 2018
# In Sight
# In Sight
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
# space - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
# SpaceX
# SpaceX
On 3 August the agency named the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and Space X vehicles in 2019.
# space - Thursday 9 August, 2018
# Guns In Space
# Guns In Space
Nasa, by comparison, is an independent and civilian branch of government.
# space - Friday 27 July, 2018
# The Bloodening
# The Bloodening
The lunar eclipse coincides with a close passing of Mars in tonight’s sky.
# space - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
# Discovery
# Discovery
The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
# space - Saturday 14 July, 2018
# Space Tourism
# Space Tourism
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are racing to be the first to finish their tests.
# space - Saturday 30 June, 2018
# Interstellar Technologies
# Interstellar Technologies
No injuries were reported in the spectacular explosion.
# space - Sunday 13 May, 2018
# Arralis
# Arralis
Arralis CEO Barry Lunn is working towards the motoring industry’s ‘iPhone moment’.
# space - Saturday 5 May, 2018
# Gimme Space
# Gimme Space
Motorists are being asked to give cyclists space this weekend.
# space - Sunday 29 April, 2018
# Astronomy
# Astronomy
“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”
# space - Monday 9 April, 2018
# Out Of This World
# Out Of This World
The new telescope will be 10 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope and help us observe the first stars in the universe.
# space - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
# Dragon
# Dragon
The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.
# space - Monday 2 April, 2018
# Tiangong-1
# Tiangong-1
The remote location of its landing made it difficult for stargazers to witness the event.
# space - Friday 30 March, 2018
# Omg Moment
# Omg Moment
The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.
A shower or two; breezy this morning
Max: 17 °C
Min: 11 °C
Cloudy with a passing shower or two
Max: 18 °C
Min: 12 °C
