The veteran West Cork-born artist Patrick Scott is the subject of a major retrospective in Dublin and Carlow, Tina Darb O’Sullivan reports

A New York auction house is showing off what it calls the world’s greatest white diamond on the block — a 118-carat stone from Africa the size of a small egg.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said.

The company putting the world’s most expensive gold coin on display has been rapped by advertising watchdogs.

US president Barack Obama has said he remains confident that a government shutdown can be avoided this weekend if negotiators can build on constructive talks over a public spending impasse.

Discovery ended its career as the world's most flown spaceship today, returning from orbit for the last time and taking off in a new direction as a museum piece.

Astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex geared up for the first spacewalk of their mission today, amid some good news from Mission Control.

Two volcanoes have erupted on Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, tossing massive ash clouds miles into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing one town with thick, heavy ash.

Bill Gates paid tribute today to the developer of an early personal computer which inspired him to found Microsoft.

Massive snowfall and strong winds again blasted Washington and much of the US east coast as the US capital struggled with the latest storm in its most difficult winter in memory.

Nasa slashed the asking price for its soon-to-be-redundant space shuttles from $42m (€29.19m) to $28.8m (€20m).

A blizzard-like storm has rocked the Mid-Atlantic and North-eastern US states, crippling travel across the region and causing hundreds of thousands of power cuts.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts stepped outside today to begin demanding repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope, a job made all the more dangerous because of the debris-ridden orbit.

Ricky Gervais told how he loved to put Ben Stiller off during the filming of 'Night At The Museum 2', which has its world premiere tonight.

THE pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched into New York’s Hudson River last month, calmly radioed to air traffic controllers: “We’re going to be in the Hudson.”

US safety officials confirmed there were birds in both engines of the US Airways airliner that ditched into the Hudson River.

Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died tonight. He was 69.

The prince of pop art, Steve Kaufman, will pay his first visit to Ireland today.

After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world’s most famous sets of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a tour of the United States that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic.

ISRAELI scientists have discovered an ancient ecosystem containing eight previously unknown species in a lake inside a cave, sheltered from the outside world for millions of years.

Living microbes found in what could be 1 million-year-old ice on a remote Arctic island support a theory the frozen planet Mars could also sustain life, researchers said today.

The windows from which President John F Kennedy is said to have been assassinated are to go up for auction in the United States, it emerged today.

A US airman is believed to have killed the world's largest bear.

Evidence of a huge ancient lake covering more than a million square kilometres has been discovered on Mars.