“I know the whole world is watching now. I wish you could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you are… I’m going home now.”
With these words, on …
Space
European Southern Observatory scheduled to make mystery announcement following Ireland’s plans to join in 2018
An increase in the budget for innovation in 2018 will finally allow Ireland to become a member of the 16-nation organisation
Spoiler alert: the mystery announcement is completely unrelated to Ireland’s joining the European Southern Observatory (ESO), but is nonetheless very exciting, featuring something never-before-seen, according to Observatory.
This announcement will now be of particular interest to Irish astrophysicists, as an …
Trinity researcher travels on Zero-G ‘Vomit Comet’ to study steam-powered spacecraft
The experiments are part of Dr. Robinson’s work for the European Space Agency
Dr. Tony Robinson, a professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering at Trinity College Dublin and researcher at Trinitys Connect centre is part of a team of scientists and engineers who advise and guide the European Space Agency. Dr. Robinson was …
The Search For Extraterrestrial Life
Carol explores the origins and new developments in the search for intelligent life forms outside planet Earth.
NASA finds evidence for liquid water on Mars
Una Harty reports on the recent announcement by NASA about the discovery of liquid water on the planet Mars.
Exciting year ahead for NASA exploration
Coming up in the year ahead: some exciting space exploration milestones.
2015 marks an exciting year for unprecedented space exploration in our solar system. Right this moment, as you are chilling on Earth, over a million kilometers away (three times the distance from the earth to the moon), NASA’s unmanned space …
Into the dark – space exploration in 2014
Dylan Lynch
Staff Writer
By the time you have finished reading this sentence, the sun will have spun you and your planetary spaceship ‘Earth’ almost 238 kilometres around itself. In one hour, it will carry you roughly 107,300 km. Galaxies …