The founder of Astronomy Ireland has now been attached to an employment rights claim by a former manager who has accused him of "pocketing" money meant to go to the science organisation. A Workplace ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

Astronomy Ireland is asking people around the country to help them count meteors in a nationwide Geminid watch. The 'Geminid' meteor shower, named after the constellation 'Gemini', will peak on Sunday ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

The blob-like home of the farthest-known fast radio burst is a collection of seven galaxies, new research suggests. In 2022, astronomers detected the most powerful fast radio burst (FRB) ever observed ...

An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the "Diamond Ring" in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ...

Long before starlight filled the cosmos for the first time, the young universe may have been simmering, according to a new study. The findings suggest that about 800 million years after the Big Bang, ...

DUNDALK'S astronomy fans will be given a rare treat tonight ( Wednesday) with the best view of Saturn for fifteen years visible in the Louth sky. In order to get the best view of the 'exquisite sight ...

After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student Pranvera Hyseni turned a moment of wonder into a lifelong mission to bring ...

Simply put, a black hole is a region of space-time where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it. This includes light, which travels at the cosmic speed limit of 186,000 miles per second.