# space-exploration - Saturday 7 September, 2019
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
The country aimed to be the first to land in the Southern Polar region.
# space-exploration - Saturday 20 October, 2018
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.
# space-exploration - Monday 25 September, 2017
# Fly Me To The Moon
# Fly Me To The Moon
The European Space Agency says it needs political backing.
# space-exploration - Friday 10 March, 2017
# To Boldly Go
# To Boldly Go
Professor Peter Gallagher has been appointed as an adviser to the Director of Science at the European Space Agency.
# space-exploration - Saturday 18 February, 2017
# Abort Abort Abort
# Abort Abort Abort
The earliest a relaunch can be attempted is tomorrow morning.
# space-exploration - Monday 14 March, 2016
# The Red Planet
# The Red Planet
The key goal is to analyse methane, a gas which is created in large by living microbes.
# space-exploration - Tuesday 21 July, 2015
# SpaceX
# SpaceX
Back to the drawing board for Elon Musk’s company.
# space-exploration - Sunday 28 June, 2015
# Under The Sea
# Under The Sea
The hope is that a new prototype will be able to explore distant planets with potential habitable oceans.
# space-exploration - Saturday 27 June, 2015
# space-exploration - Friday 5 June, 2015
# Into The Beyond
# Into The Beyond
For the first time since 1982, NASA is in the process of testing new space suit prototypes.
# space-exploration - Friday 20 March, 2015
# Your Say
# Your Say
Bas Lansdorp denied the project is a sham.
# space-exploration - Wednesday 28 January, 2015
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
On this day in 1986, the shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch.
# space-exploration - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
# Match Made In The Heavens
# Match Made In The Heavens
Reports say Google are planning a big investment in SpaceX.
# space-exploration - Saturday 17 January, 2015
# To Boldly Go
# To Boldly Go
They did. And it was for a good reason.
# space-exploration - Friday 14 November, 2014
# COLONISATION
# COLONISATION
The second man to land on the Moon said those that travel to Mars shouldn’t envisage that they will ever return to Earth.
# space-exploration - Wednesday 12 November, 2014
# space-exploration - Tuesday 11 November, 2014
# Secret Plans
# Secret Plans
The giant web company is spending nearly €1 billion on a San Francisco air base.
# space-exploration - Saturday 25 October, 2014
# space-exploration - Friday 19 September, 2014
# Space Race
# Space Race
The MAVEN spacecraft, a scout for human explorers, is approaching the red planet
# space-exploration - Friday 11 July, 2014
# Ultimate Fireball
# Ultimate Fireball
Space junk from a Russian rocket lit up the Australian sky.
# space-exploration - Thursday 10 July, 2014
# To Boldly Float
# To Boldly Float
A few weeks into orbit, the LightSail’s wings will expand, making it visible from Earth.
# space-exploration - Thursday 10 April, 2014
# Stargazger
# Stargazger
With Mars currently in opposition, and shining with an orange tinge, Conor Farrell explores our fascination with the Red Planet.
# space-exploration - Wednesday 2 April, 2014
# Crimea Crisis
# Crimea Crisis
The US space agency has cut all contacts with Russia, except for cooperation on board the International Space Station.
# space-exploration - Monday 10 March, 2014
# Seeing Stars
# Seeing Stars
If you did, you weren’t alone.
# space-exploration - Thursday 27 February, 2014
# space-exploration - Wednesday 12 February, 2014
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
The rover experienced a mechanical control abnormality at the end of last month and has been unable to function since then.
# space-exploration - Sunday 2 February, 2014
# Mission Improbable
# Mission Improbable
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, as the famous song goes*. But how about the other direction?
# space-exploration - Saturday 25 January, 2014
# Interstellar Trekker
# Interstellar Trekker
The rover was only supposed to run for 90 days, but 10 years a 40 Martian kilometers later, it shows no signs of stopping.
# space-exploration - Thursday 9 January, 2014
# Mars One Mission
From The Daily Edge
# Mars One Mission
Dr Joseph Roche, from Kildare, is one of 1,000 people shortlisted for the Mars One colony mission.
# space-exploration - Tuesday 19 November, 2013
# The Magnetic Fields
# The Magnetic Fields
The European Space Agency is preparing to launch three hi-tech satellites this Friday.
# space-exploration - Monday 4 November, 2013
# Mars
# Mars
The country is aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet.
# space-exploration - Friday 13 September, 2013
# Galaxy Quest
# Galaxy Quest
Two groups of astronomers have used data from ESO telescopes to make the best three-dimensional map yet of the centre of our galaxy. Turns out it’s shaped a bit like a peanut…
# space-exploration - Tuesday 16 July, 2013
# ISS
# ISS
The dangerous water leak occurred in the helmet of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano about an hour into the spacewalk.
# space-exploration - Monday 3 June, 2013
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
Maybe we won’t miss Chris Hadfield that much? These spectacular images were taken by his replacement Fyodor Yurchikhin during his last mission on the ISS.
# space-exploration - Thursday 16 May, 2013
# KAPUT
# KAPUT
The planet-hunting telescope is 40 million miles from Earth and searches for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.
# space-exploration - Thursday 11 April, 2013
# Space Exploration
# Space Exploration
The world’s leading physicist says our existence depends on finding a new planet to live on. No pressure, then.
# space-exploration - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
# Curiosity
# Curiosity
Nasa Curiosity Rover, which is living on the Red Planet, has taken samples of rock for analysis by scientists back home.
# space-exploration - Saturday 15 December, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
It’s good to be curious about a world outside our own, because being inquisitive in the past has gotten us where we are today, writes Conor Farrell.
# space-exploration - Monday 5 November, 2012
# Wish You Were Here
# Wish You Were Here
Curiosity has used its ‘hand lens imager’ to take 55 photos of itself – and stitch them into one single giant image.
# space-exploration - Saturday 1 September, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
These are financially difficult times – but that doesn’t mean we should abandon the big projects that advance human knowledge, writes Aaron McKenna.
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