News | Latest Breaking News Stories & Headlines | RTÉ

National Weather Warning

Get live updates from RTÉ

1

Click icon above
to allow notifications
from RTÉ

2

Select 'Allow'
Once prompted
by Chrome

Maybe later

At its largest estimated size, the asteroid would be nearly twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower

Huge asteroid to pass (relatively) close by Earth

News Lens / 14 Sep

Located about 700 light-years from Earth, the eye-like Helix nebula is a planetary nebula, or the remains of a Sun-like star | Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA shares stunning images for telescope's anniversary

News Lens / 28 Aug

NASA is aiming to send humans back to the moon as soon as 2024

Washington Monument lit up to mark moon landing mission

News Lens / 17 Jul

Neil Armstrong (left), who passed away in 2012, poses with Michael Collins (c) and Buzz Aldrin (r) before their historic flight in 1969

Apollo 11 astronaut returns to historic Moon launchpad

A dozen private astronauts could visit the International Space Station per year

NASA to open International Space Station to tourists

The robotic probe is designed to study the deep interior of a distant world

'Marsquake': first tremor detected on Red Planet

Data shows warming at the poles may be happening more rapidly than previously thought

Satellite data confirms global warming trend

Donald Trump has made clear his desire to reinvigorate the US space agency

US pledges to send astronauts back to the Moon by 2024

NASA said it was important to get the right gear for the astronauts

NASA scraps all-female spacewalk

Dr Julie McEnery works as an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Centre

Reaching for the Stars: From Dublin to Outer Space

NASA plans to put two astronauts aboard by the end of the year

NASA, SpaceX successfully launch capsule to ISS

Jim Bridenstine says he hopes to have astronauts back on the moon by 2028

NASA plans 2028 return to Moon, this time to stay

Science and Technology / 15 Feb

The body is roughly 19 miles long and completes its own rotation in about 15 hours

Far away world Ultima Thule shaped like snowman - NASA

Science and Technology / 02 Jan

An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering Ultima Thule, (1.6bn/km) beyond Pluto

NASA probe reaches distant space rock for first time

The spacecraft captured stunning images of Pluto when it flew by the dwarf planet in 2015

NASA spaceship approaches distant target

Science and Technology / 30 Dec 18

A delighted Alexander Gerst after his arrival back to Earth

Astronauts arrive back on Earth after ISS mission

World / 20 Dec 18

Two sensors on Insight picked up the vibrations of the wind

NASA's Insight lander records wind heard on Mars

Science / 07 Dec 18

The rocket was "successfully launched into orbit" this morning

Manned Soyuz rocket successfully docks at ISS

Science and Technology / 03 Dec 18

The image shows part of the spacecraft and the Martian surface in the distance

NASA's InSight spacecraft sends back selfie from Mars

World / 27 Nov 18

A replica of the InSight Mars Lander on display at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California

NASA's InSight probe lands on Mars

Science / 26 Nov 18

NASA handout shows an illustration of a simulated view of NASA's InSight probe about to land on Mars

NASA counts down to InSight probe landing on Mars

Science and Technology / 23 Nov 18

Kepler has discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets since its launch in 2009

Planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to be retired

Science and Technology / 31 Oct 18

The 10-tonne Hubble space telescope was launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery

Gyroscope trouble sees Hubble switch into 'safe mode'

News / 09 Oct 18

The launch marks the first time in nearly a decade that NASA has had a tool in orbit to measure ice sheet surface elevation across the globe

NASA launches satellite to track changes in polar ice

News / 15 Sep 18

The unmanned Parker Solar Probe aims to get closer than any human-made object to the centre of our solar system

NASA launches spacecraft on mission towards Sun

Parker Solar Probe / 12 Aug 18

Showing 1 - 25 of 106 stories