Astronomers both professional and amateur across large parts of the globe — including ours own— will have their eyes peeled and telescopes and solar filters ready eyes peeled today for what is a relatively infrequent celestial event.

There’s a popular programme called ‘Who Do You Think Your Are?’ which charts the genealogy of individuals, usually celebrities, perhaps as far back as a few hundred years.

The Geminids meteor shower peaks on the mornings of December 13 and 14, 2018 – but if you look up any time there’s a clear night sky up until December 17, you might just catch a glimpse of a Geminid meteor, writes Samantha Rolfe.

On the red carpet this week...

All the style from the red carpet this week.

The problem with planets is that they move.

The sky is full of stories. Constellations record mythical figures and events. Most take their names from the Greeks or Romans, although we know the Greeks based their system on Sumerian traditions from some 3,000 years earlier.

Stargazers are being asked to count shooting stars in the skies tonight.

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. 

Although the summer nights are gradually getting longer, they remain short in July and even away from city lights there is a faint glow in the night sky, writes Niall Smith.

British astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to find a group of nine massive stars 30m times brighter than the sun.

Hollywood stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill were in Dublin yesterday, and we could not get enough of them.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a giant star exploded in a flash of light so blinding the scene of destruction can still be seen here on Planet Earth.

Australian astronomers say they have found a star 13.6bn years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.