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# space - Friday 30 August, 2019
Donald Trump launches new military centre to protect 'America's dominance in space'
US military chiefs claim the move is necessary to defend the country’s ‘way of life’.
# space - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
A humanoid robot has joined the crew of the International Space Station
Fedor copies human movements and can help astronauts carry out tasks remotely.
# space - Saturday 24 August, 2019
NASA reportedly investigating first allegation of a crime in space
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
# space - Monday 12 August, 2019
Analysis: Ireland's clever kicking shows Schmidt is keen for more variety
The Irish scrum-halves didn’t kick a single time during the win over Italy.
# space - Sunday 21 July, 2019
The Irish For: An astronaut is a star-sailor, a comet is a paintbrush star
The calling to travel beyond the Earth owes itself to mythology as well as science, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
# space - Friday 7 June, 2019
NASA to open International Space Station to tourists from 2020
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
# space - Wednesday 24 April, 2019
Nasa Mars lander picks up what's likely first detected 'Marsquake'
Nasa has said the new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior.
# space - Thursday 11 April, 2019
Meet Katie Bouman, the MIT computer scientist who made the black hole image possible
Bouman has herself became an internet celebrity after yesterday’s picture.
# space - Wednesday 10 April, 2019
This is the first ever image of a black hole, located in a galaxy 53 million light years away
“It’s like trying to photograph a golf ball on the Moon.”
# space - Friday 22 February, 2019
Japan probe lands 300 million km away in hunt for clues to origin of life
Meanwhile, Israel began a mission to make its first Moon landing.
# space - Thursday 14 February, 2019
After roving on Mars for 15 years and sending back 217,594 images, Opportunity is now dead
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
# space - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
That plan to make a colony on Mars and film it for reality TV has gone bust
The company is in the red, as it were.
# space - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
Discovery of 'repeating' radio waves from deep space baffles astronomers
The waves were discovered by Canadian scientists, who cannot explain their origin.
# space - Thursday 3 January, 2019
Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on moon's far side
China plans to send its Chang’e 5 probe to the moon next year.
A meteor shower peaking tonight rings in the start of a busy year for stargazing
A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.
# space - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
Celebrations as NASA spacecraft successfully passes by oldest cosmic body ever studied
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
# space - Friday 28 December, 2018
Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft closing in on most distant world ever studied
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
# space - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
Saturn is losing its rings at the 'worst-case scenario' rate
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
# space - Thursday 13 December, 2018
Virgin Galactic reaches space for first time
“This is a momentous day and I could not be more proud of our teams,” Richard Branson said.
# space - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Nasa's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space 41 years after launch
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.
# space - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
Here are the first photos of Mars from the InSight explorer
A lovely sight this grim morning.
# space - Sunday 21 October, 2018
Quiz: How much do you know about the moon?
This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.
# space - Saturday 20 October, 2018
Mission to discover the mysteries of Mercury blasts off
The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.
# space - Thursday 11 October, 2018
'Thank God they're alive': Crew of Soyuz rocket safe after emergency landing
The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.
# space - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Irish-produced documentary about Voyager space programme wins Emmy award
The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.
# space - Friday 24 August, 2018
A Nasa spacecraft that will land on an asteroid and take a sample has just glimpsed its target
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
# space - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
SpaceX vows manned flight to space station is on schedule
On 3 August the agency named the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019.
# space - Thursday 9 August, 2018
Space Force to be a branch of US military and will prepare for 'next battlefield'
Nasa, by comparison, is an independent and civilian branch of government.
# space - Friday 27 July, 2018
Tonight's blood moon is the longest of the 21st century - here's when you can see it best
The lunar eclipse coincides with a close passing of Mars in tonight’s sky.
# space - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
'Oddball' among 12 new moons discovered around Jupiter
The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
# space - Saturday 14 July, 2018
The first space tourist flights could happen over the next year
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are racing to be the first to finish their tests.
# space - Saturday 30 June, 2018
Japanese rocket crashes and explodes shortly after take off
No injuries were reported in the spectacular explosion.
# space - Sunday 13 May, 2018
Meet the 'secretive' Limerick man who's quietly putting eyes on spacecraft and cars
Arralis CEO Barry Lunn is working towards the motoring industry’s ‘iPhone moment’.
# space - Saturday 5 May, 2018
'It's like standing inside the yellow line when a train goes past' - Why cyclists want a bit of space
Motorists are being asked to give cyclists space this weekend.
# space - Sunday 29 April, 2018
Galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age, new study finds
“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”
# space - Monday 9 April, 2018
Irish scientists will help build the world's most powerful and expensive telescope
The new telescope will be 10 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope and help us observe the first stars in the universe.
# space - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
SpaceX capsule reaches space station with food and experiments
The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.
# space - Monday 2 April, 2018
Defunct Chinese space station plunges back to Earth over South Pacific
The remote location of its landing made it difficult for stargazers to witness the event.
# space - Friday 30 March, 2018
Astronomers find the 'impossible': A galaxy without dark matter
The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.
# space - Tuesday 27 March, 2018
Debris from space station hurtling towards Earth not expected to hit populated areas
One expert said the odds of being struck by space debris are 10 million times less likely than getting hit by lightening.
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