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Ever wondered what became of all those bright young minds who collected the Young Scientist title over the years? Well wonder no more.

It’s once-in-a-blue-moon stuff; the senior county double.

Trinity College Dublin has plunged further down the rankings of the world’s best universities.

Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, Nasa says.

IT’S been out of this world for 36 years... now it’s leaving the solar system. In doing so, Voyager 1, launched in August 1977, is the furthest man-made object from Earth, almost 18.75bn kilometres from its creators and heading for interstellar space, the space between stars.

A Southampton University scientist has helped to develop a new method of understanding the complex world of turbulence which could save billions in global energy costs.

Matthew McConaughey has confirmed he will star in 'Interstellar'.

The Curiosity rover has answered a key question about Mars: In the past, the red planet had some of the ingredients needed to support primitive life.

Nasa rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars – a find that the mission’s chief scientist called exciting.

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 150 seconds of its dive through the Mars atmosphere, giving Earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

He may be one of the world’s most eminent scientists but one thing remains a mystery to Professor Stephen Hawking – women.

Irish universities have failed to impress in the latest world university rankings.

THE head of the Higher Education Authority has said a drop in another set of world rankings by the country’s top two universities should be a wake-up call to speed up reforms.

A new attempt to link brains to machines has enabled volunteers to make screen images appear and fade away simply by thinking.

The US-Mexico border has been rocked by a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that rattled nerves in a region still recovering from the deadly Easter tremor, seismologists said today.

PEOPLE with bad eating habits have “devilish” brains that prevent them exercising self-control, a study has shown.

SCIENTISTS say supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one of Saturn’s moons suggest it has liquid water, a key building block of life.

MANY people will have waited and waited for a bus only to give up and decide to walk instead, thinking it was the better option.

Powerful earthquakes struck Indonesia for a third day today, terrorising thousands of people who were refusing to return to their homes in fear of tsunami and falling debris.

Scientists have discovered the universe’s largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling a star 1,400 light years away.

Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it is not even the biggest one of those.

Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research who helped develop the first successful US satellite, Explorer I, has died aged 91.

A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbour an environment favourable to life.

War Of The Worlds director Steven Spielberg is developing a film about a group of explorers who travel through a wormhole in space into another dimension.

Astronomers may have detected the dawn’s early light – light from around the dawn of the universe, that is.

AMERICAN scientists have discovered what they are excitedly claiming - but others dispute - should be recognised as the 10th planet in orbit around our sun.

Astronomers say they have discovered a new planet larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun, renewing debate over what exactly is a planet and whether Pluto should keep its status.

A TEAM of European and American astronomers said over the weekend that they had for the first time directly observed a planet outside of our solar system.

SCIENTISTS describe the devastating earthquake off the island of Sumatra as a "megathrust" - a grade reserved for the most powerful shifts in the Earth's crust and the equivalent of one million atomic bombs.

Scientists describe the devastating earthquake off the island of Sumatra as a “megathrust” – a grade reserved for the most powerful shifts in the Earth’s crust.

Three American scientists today won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for their work in the discovery and exploration of strong force and quarks.

Scientists are beginning efforts to retrieve solar atoms from the crashed Genesis space capsule, a day after it plunged to earth and slammed into the Utah desert.

A space capsule holding atoms collected from solar wind was en route to a tricky rendezvous with Earth today, offering scientists the first material Nasa has brought back from space in nearly three decades.

The world of astrophysics is expected to go into a spin today with rumours the world’s leading scientist is to dispel the myth of the black hole.

Pictures of the newly discovered planetoid Sedna show it moonless, spinning alone some eight billion miles from Earth.

A MYSTERIOUS red "planet" has been discovered in our solar system, American scientists announced last night.

American scientists were expected to announce today that they had found a new “planet” in our solar system.