European Space Agency

The Gateway project puts a four-person crew in a space station in deep space, an important stepping stone for future explorations

Europe to launch a telescope so scientists can look 10bn years into the universe’s past

SpaceX founder hits back at criticism over crowding space with satellites

The James Webb Space Telescope may tell us more about dark matter and other mysteries

SpaceX launching more than 100 satellites every month in rapid expansion of Starlink

Extra funding to boost farm safety, flood prediction and video games among others

Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko will film scenes for movie over 12 days

First US-led mission to atmosphere of solar system’s hottest planet since 1978

Giant slab of ice bigger than Majorca has sheared off into the Weddell Sea

Do you know your satailít and your carr Mhars from your cóiméad or spásfort?

That’s Maths: Ship’s impact with iceberg could, arguably, have been avoided

Galway group’s equipment to form part of European Space Agency’s Altius satellite

Planet Business: Have you got a passion for space travel?

Instrument set to be delivered to International Space Station on resupply mission

Recruitment drive invites wider range of new candidates for space-based missions

Enterprise Ireland to help Irish firms to boost the value of contracts in space-related activities

Skytek satellite links to Ireland’s disease reporting system to issue alerts when cases spike

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Sentinel 6 will help identify impacts on Ireland and improve weather forecasting

InnaLabs making an incredibly delicate navigation system for a space craft

Dublin company supplying technology for mission to prevent asteroids hitting Earth

Irish firm part of group selected by European Space Agency for deep space mission

Artificial intelligence technology developed by Dublin-based Ubotica installed on satellite

Research Lives: PhD researcher John Noone of DCU School of Health and Human Performance and National Institute for Cellular Biology

Ireland could be primed to win a share of the exploding market for small rockets

Alarm raised that sky could be overrun with hundreds of thousands of tiny satellites

EirGrid calculates that by 2028 data centres will be consuming 29% of Ireland’s electricity

Swedish activist in Earth Day appeal for measures to tackle ‘two crises at once’

Satellites orbiting planet reveal significant reduction in hazardous gases and particles

Artist is making paintings to bring together ideas of some of sun’s finest unseen moments

It is expected two solar probes observing the sun will revolutionise solar science

Ireland must continue to internationalise its research by joining key scientific bodies

Experts agree that accurate information among best ways to make policy decisions

Dr David McKeown, assistant professor UCD school of mechanical and materials engineering

One universe with different determinations of its rate of expansion which do not agree

Propellor Shannon helping two companies to market with €2m backing from industry

ProvEye's image correction system filters out ‘interference’ for clearer view

Systems behind Apollo 11 were thousands of times less powerful than a modern phone but they did not crash or malfunction

As the 50th anniversary looms, we need to find new ways to excite aspiring astronauts

Space sector in Ireland employed 2,000 in 2014; and is set to rise to 4,500 by 2020