A partial lunar eclipse may be visible from Ireland this evening.

When Neil Armstrong took his fateful 'one small step' almost exactly 50 years ago, it was the culmination of an extraordinary effort that had begun back in 1961 when President Kennedy vowed that America would land a man on the moon before the decade was out.

On Tuesday night almost two thirds of the Moon will be hidden in the Earth's shadow.

It appears the world is getting ready to celebrate the fact that Neil Armstrong became not the man in the Moon but the first man on the moon 50 years ago (July 29, 1969).

A Waterford virtual reality firm is targeting major growth in North America and Asia after agreeing a deal with one of the biggest space museums in the US.

International law firm William Fry has opened an office in Cork because of continued growth in its Munster business, including tech and life sciences, it said.

A new manufacturing facility in Cork has created 70 new jobs, with 30 of these roles already filled in recent months.

The influence of law and politics on sport will continue to deepen in 2019. In the second of a two-part series, Jack Anderson looks at some landmark sporting anniversaries that fall this year.

I HAVE to be honest here. I live in the country and for that sole reason I’m not really in the way of owning an electric car, says Declan Colley.

The Cure are sold out already, but Lana Del Rey has also been added to the summer roster for Malahide Castle in what has been a big week for gig announcements.

Everyone’s favourite substitute history teacher, Reeling in the Years, just never gets old.

Black ’47, out now - Revenge thriller set during the Irish Famine. Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan and Stephen Rea star.

In light of the violent gun attack in the Greektown neighbourhood of their city the Toronto Film Festival’s CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey announced this year’s first films today with little fanfare.

A bag used by astronaut Neil Armstrong to bring the first samples of moon dust back to Earth has been sold for around €1.45m.

It was 48 years ago today that a former US navy test pilot delivered one of the most famous sound bites in history.

Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction.

It isn’t every day that an Irish publican gets a call from an astronaut on the International Space Station. 

Cork Midsummer Festival June 14-25, 2017. 

When Buzz Aldrin comes to Cork in June, he will give a public talk with a large replica of the lunar surface he once walked upon above his head.

So strong was the narrative surrounding Conor McGregor’s recent occupation of New York that one could be forgiven for pegging him as a pioneer.

ENGLAND: The top cats in Whitehall have apparently ceased hostilities after a “fracas”, new Commons Leader David Lidington has reassured MPs.

It’s been almost 50 years since Nasa astronaut Neil Armstrong left the dusty imprints of his lunar boots on the surface of the moon.

You can’t be sensible all the time. You must go with your heart.

The National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, is launching a crowd-funding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.

When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, it marked the culmination of a $24 billion NASA space program. 

Waterford start- up Immersive VR Education launched its first prototype this month and sent over 70 Co Wexford secondary school students to the moon.

A cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light, more than 40 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing.

A thousand euro has been collected for St Vincent de Paul in Tralee this weekend after the town’s leading citizens took part in office chair racing.

A series of mishaps has forced mission controllers to scrub today’s planned launch of the Orion spacecraft that could one day take astronauts to Mars.

To misquote lunar astronaut, Neil Armstrong.... Royal de Luxe’s giant gran took another small step in her global travels yesterday, delivering a giant boost to Limerick’s City of Culture celebrations.

On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin was "out of town" when the world united and rejoiced in a way never seen before or since.

Is the selfie just a bit of harmless fun — or the ultimate in narcissistic self indulgence? Jonathan deBurca Butler reports.

Test your knowledge of science and nature with our tricky multiple choice quiz. Then find out how bright you are. (Answers are at the bottom — but no peeking!

UNSEATING 2012 from its throne as one of the most remarkable years for science in the 21st century would require a truly brilliant discovery or breakthrough.

Everyone’s favourite Space Canadian, astronaut Chris Hadfield, says box office smash Gravity is a visual delight — and pretty damn close to being in space.

Comedian Tommy Tiernan has a great skit about NASA, and about the space race that culminated in the moon landing in 1969.

This Magnificent Desolation

Printed pornography is already banned in Iceland, but there is scepticism over new plans to ban online porn, writes Dan Buckley

Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of space, poised in the open doorway of a capsule suspended above Earth and wondering if he would make it back alive.

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.

A 50m stretch of a town park, dedicated to the astronaut Neil Armstrong, will be “an essential part” of a €5.6m traffic plan in Tralee, Co Kerry.

Americans bid farewell yesterday to Neil Armstrong, the first man to take a giant leap on to the moon.