Fake news appears to be all the rage these days.

You can’t go to a conference now without someone putting up on a big screen some variation of the idea that “most of the jobs of the future haven’t been invented yet”.

CAPTAIN Boyle, Sean O’Casey’s character in his play Juno and the Paycock, was fond of proclaiming: “The whole worl’s in a terrible state o’ chassis.”

The problem with planets is that they move.

Summer is now truly upon us with the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere occurring on June 21. Since the Winter Solstice in December, the Sun has been rising higher in the sky each day, but on June 21 this behaviour stops and the sun is said to “stand still”. The word ‘solstice’ is derived from the Latin solstitium, from ‘sol’ (sun) and ‘stitium’ (to stop).

A new trailer for DC fighting game Injustice 2 featuring villain Poison Ivy hit the web yesterday, showcasing the former Dr. Pamela Isley’s wild mix of plant-based putdowns.

A spectacular celestial sight will be visible for a few hours tonight before reappearing during the week.

A spectacular celestial sight will be visible for a few hours tonight before reappearing during the week.

Bombarded with the idea that there are toys for girls and for boys, Andrea Mara finds out why gendered marketing matters

Rita de Brún believes the next stage of the space race will be for — lunar real estate.

A Date For Mad Mary is the latest film to underline the current depth of talent in Ireland, writes Esther McCarthy

There are two main events to keep an eye out for in August — the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 12 and 13, and a “close encounter” between Jupiter and Venus on August 27. 

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Women given testosterone while undergoing a sex change start to think more like men after the treatment, research suggests.

Ireland is to launch its first space mission which will be developed by Maynooth-based company, Space Technology Ireland (STIL).

Ahead of the World Bodysurfing Championships, Kevin Pilley strikes his best Baywatch pose and heads for Oceanside, California, the ultimate beach and surf holiday destination.

Hailo Ireland have made no secret of their campaign for a Yes vote in Friday’s marriage equality referendum.

Update 15/4: Astronomy Ireland now estimates the two bright 'stars' will be visible on both Wednesday and Thursday night, as the docking procedure is not due until Friday midday.

A miniature version of our solar system existed 11 billion years ago, and it had planets the size of Earth which could have held ancient life, according to scientists

Science is losing out because of the mistaken belief that "men are from Mars and women from Venus", a leading neuroscientist has claimed.

Science is losing out because of the mistaken belief that “men are from Mars and women from Venus”, a leading neuroscientist has claimed.

A dazzling conjunction of Jupiter and Venus could lead to a flurry of UFO sightings early on Monday.

A “supermoon” lit up the sky as stargazers enjoyed the Perseid meteor shower - one of the year’s most dramatic lunar events.

A dramatic “supermoon” is set to accompany this year’s Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated events on the skywatcher’s calender.

A newly discovered rocky planet may be the most Earth-like yet found in another solar system, scientists believe.

HAVE you ever heard The Football Association of Ireland described as the greatest organisation in the country? Me neither.

Scientists have issued the first weather forecast for an alien “super-Earth” orbiting a star 40 light years away.

Men are from Mars and women from Venus, they say — and a look inside their brains suggests it could be true.

On top of the hill the old man and his wife were standing next to the altar they had made, muttering words into the smoke.

Stag parties on Saturn, vacations on Venus — once Neil Armstrong took that one small step back in 1969 the world awaited giant leaps in space tourism. And it’s finally coming.

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WE’VE mastered space travel, we can programme our lives through smart phones and we communicate more and more through computers. But, at the same time, the basics of the body language of love are still a mystery to many of us.

From the US to South Korea, the eyes of the world turned skyward today for the rare sight of the transit of Venus.

A dozing pilot sent his jet into an emergency dive when he woke and mistook the planet Venus for an approaching plane, a report has revealed.

A dozing airline pilot sent his jet into an emergency dive when he woke and mistook the planet Venus for an approaching plane, a report has revealed.

Astronomy tour to China

All eyes will be on the night sky this evening as two of the brightest planets in our solar system cross paths.

A brilliant new 'star', about 100 times brighter than the brightest stars in the sky, has appeared over Ireland.

A NEW planet detected orbiting a star 600 light years away could have continents, oceans and life.

Israel’s Supreme Court today ordered former president Moshe Katsav to spend seven years in prison after rejecting the disgraced politician’s appeal against a rape conviction and other sex crimes.

ENDA is from Mars, Eamon is from Venus and both have been running Planet Bankrupt for the past 100 days.

America is united in jubilation at the killing of bin Laden while an unsettled Europe ponders the ethics of the operation and future implications, writes Alastair MacDonald

WHILE property sales here have come crashing to earth, sales of plots on the moon are rocketing, with almost 40,000 Irish people now owning land on our nearest neighbour.