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...
For the first time in international science, researchers from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) have observed a cosmic explosion with unprecedented detail and witnessed particle acceleration outside our solar system.
DIAS scientists...
HeroX has launched the crowdsourcing competition “NASA Waste Jettison Mechanism Challenge”. The Challenge seeks to find a safe and reliable launching system for...
In today's Podcast Melanie Boylan speaks with Dr Aaron Naeger who is a Research Scientist at the University of Alabama, in Huntsville. He also works very closel...
The NASA and University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission team has been selected to receive the 2022 John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration by the Space Foundation, a nonprofit organisation that advocates for space ...
A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters – old, dense groups...
Now is the best time to get a glimpse of Comet C/2021 A1, better known as Comet Leonard. It's named for its discoverer, Gregory Leonard, a senior research speci...
A team of Irish scientists from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) have played a key role in developing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is scheduled to launch from the Guiana Space Centre on Wednesday, 22nd December at 12....