Rté - What Is The Stars?

Steve Cooney talks to Carl Corcoran about how he moved from being a rock musician in Australia to one of the most respected trad accompanists and producers in Ireland

After recent falls we're all encouraged to put on our citizen scientist meteor hunting but where is the best place to go?

If you think that we have a lot of meteors this week spare a thought for the late heavy bombardment of 3.8 billion years ago

In an infinite and eternal universe, every line of sight from the Earth should end up at a star. So why is the sky dark?

The Fermi Paradox: Given the size and age of the universe there should be extra terrestrial life but how come we can find no sign of it.

Voyager's mission

The Moons of Mars...

Tracking November's Solar Eclipse

Chinese astronomy and "Inquiries of Heaven"

The Perseids the years best meteor shower this year. Shooting stars visible from Ireland this weekend (and at a reasonable hour)

Keep an eye on Mars this week – low in the south west after sunset.

It's meteor watching time and if you are blessed with frizzy hair you can actually hear them as well as see them.

How to work out when Ramadan falls,

This week we go an acronym to far with LUCIFER - LBT Near Infrared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research for observing stellar nurseries.

The 50th birthday of the Kennedy Space Centre launch pad for among other things Apollo 11 the first manned lunar landing.

This week marks the third anniversary of the Ulysses mission which went like its namesakes into unexplored territory.

Carl Corcoran talks to Paddy Kehoe about John Martyn's and his epoch-busting album solid air

Hunting for Pluto by learning to avert your eyes!

Bayer names, Flamsteed numbers and the Henry Draper catalogue - how to name falling star.

The NuStar team are hunting for axions but how do you find something that's 500 million times lighter than an electron and might not even exist at all.