Life could exist on Saturn's moon Enceladus around hydrothermal vents similar to those found at the bottom of Earth's oceans, scientists believe.

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

These seven high-profile cases from 2015 show that the HSE has a long way to go in translating policy into practice, writes Catherine Shanahan

Irene O’Brien is behind all the best vintage fashion shoots. So imagine how excited Paula Burns was when Irene took her vintage shopping?

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

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

Sky-watchers will be burning the midnight oil tonight as one of the year’s most spectacular meteor showers reaches its fiery peak.

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!

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave St Mary’s Hospital with their newborn son, Prince George of Cambridge.

A mini-world the size of the Moon is the smallest planet yet discovered beyond the Solar System.

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Lady Gaga is taking emergency advice from astrologers over fears the stars will be aligned in the wrong direction for her world tour.

Tullow Oil has formally concluded its long-awaited $2.9 billion (€2.19bn) sale of certain Ugandan assets to its two developmental partners, China’s CNOOC and French company, Total.

ON July 20, 1969, thousands of people across Ireland sat watching grainy black and white images of men taking their first steps on the moon.

ASTRONOMERS have identified two roasted Earth-size planets that survived being engulfed by a swollen dying star.

FOR the first time, Earth has a regular, orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system’s smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

ASIAN fortune-tellers are divining mixed blessings for Britain’s Prince William and fiancée Kate Middleton, with the gloomier oracles warning of affairs, divorce and trouble having children.

A planet with a fiery comet-like tail has been discovered in a distant solar system.

A WOBBLE in the precise clockwork of the solar system could see the Earth collide with Mercury, Mars or Venus, scientists predict.

THE public has been urged to boldly go where no-one has gone before — on a walk through our solar system which been “shrunk” to fit along the Banks of the Lee.

SCIENTISTS are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon’s South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.

Europe’s first mission to the moon got a scare today, but ground controllers were able make a last-minute course correction that kept the craft from prematurely hitting a lunar crater’s rim.

EUROPE’S first mission to the moon is due to crash- land in a cloud of dust and rock Sunday, ending a three-year voyage that gathered data about the lunar surface and tested a new engine intended to propel future spacecraft to Mercury and other planets.

THE universe just got smaller. Yesterday morning there were nine planets in the solar system — by 2.30pm there were just eight.

A PIANO-SIZED spacecraft tonight blasted off on a 3-billion mile journey to study Pluto, the solar system’s last unexplored planet.

A piano-sized spacecraft tonight blasted off on a 3-billion mile journey to study Pluto, the solar system’s last unexplored planet.

Nasa scrubbed its launch of an unmanned spacecraft on a nine-year voyage to Pluto for the second day in a row today, but this time weather in Maryland was to blame.

Bad weather forced Nasa to cancel the launch of an unmanned spacecraft on a nine-year, 3-billion-mile voyage to Pluto, the solar system’s last unexplored planet.

An unmanned spacecraft the size of a piano is due to lift off tomorrow on a nine-year journey to the Pluto – the last unexplored planet in the Solar System.

Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest.

SCIENTISTS were celebrating last night after confirmation a European spacecraft had landed safely on Saturn’s icy cloud-covered moon Titan after a seven- year journey.

Scientists were celebrating tonight after confirmation that a European spacecraft had landed safely on Saturn’s icy cloud-covered moon Titan after a seven year journey.

The Mercury Messenger probe, which will conduct a detailed investigation of the first planet from the Sun, was launched successfully today after a 24-hour delay.

NASA is about to embark on its hottest mission ever - to launch the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury, the nearest rock to the Sun.

The European Commission today appealed to governments to increase spending on space technology to prevent the bloc from falling behind newcomers such as China, Brazil and India in an increasingly competitive commercial market.

The European Space Agency is planning a joint mission with Japan that would be the first to land a probe on Mercury, a space official said today.

Scientists are in dispute over how long the planet will survive.