Maynooth University researchers are set to receive over €5 million in funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Frontiers for the Future Programme...
It’s the final chance to enter the ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition, organised by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). The compet...
In this podcast Melanie Boylan speaks to Ronan Newman who is launching the first annual Irish Astronomy Week this March.
Learn how this came about and how he...
Asteroid Belting
Asteroid Bennu, the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid expedition, kept surprising the mission team while the spacecraft studied it from a d...
The current situation on Mars
There are currently eight spacecraft, including three operated by NASA, orbiting Mars. These spacecraft gather images of the plan...
University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of star system. They're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation.
The ne...
A University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has created a detailed, three-dimensional image of a dying hypergiant star. The team, led by UArizona researcher...
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Researchers at the University of Arizona pla...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will swing by Earth to deliver a sample from asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. But it won't clock out after that.
NASA has exten...
