Rté - What Is The Stars?

Prepare yourself for the transit of Venus across the sun on the 5th or 6th of June, Skerries is the place to see it but if you miss it don't worry you can catch it again in 2117.

David Bowie's "Starman" (the song not the actual man) is among the items making the 41 year journey to the planets orbiting 55 Cancri. Wonder what they'll send back?

Next weeks eclipse will turn the sun into a ring of fire.

Affordable space travel is becoming a reality. Travel by recoverable rocket for a mere $200k. Tickets anyone

Carl Corcoran talk to Eamonn Quinn, director of Louth Contemporary Music Society

Frances McCarthy goes back to Galileo’s 1610 observations of Venus to ask the burning question, “Why is Venus so brilliant?”

For those of us not expecting to be about when it next comes about in 2061, the currently visible ETA Aquariids meteor shower may be the closest we’ll get to Halley’s Comet.

It may no have no atmosphere but Mercury is the "anchor at one end of the solar system"

In 1859 during the Carrington event telegraph operators were able to switch off their batteries and operate on "celestial power." How?