The DUP and Young Earth creationism

Fraught relationship between science and religion is a fairly recent import from the US

Irish Times view on the new space race: breaking the bonds of Earth

Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are boldly going where no billionaire has gone before

In the bleak midwinter? An Irishman’s Diary on the date of the Nativity

December sky: Jupiter and Saturn to appear closest to each other since 400 years ago

Christmas treat will see gas giants visible together in telescope along with their moons

Great human advances were made throughout the ‘Dark Ages’

The major discoveries of the Scientific Revolution were made in universities strongly supported by the church

Range: Forget the ‘10,000 hours’ rule – there’s another way to succeed

Book review: David Epstein argues that early specialisation is not essential to success

Kepler’s vanishing circles hidden in Hamilton’s Hodograph

Great Irish scientist William Rowan Hamilton devised the hodograph and used it in his analysis of the motions of the planets

Lessons from potentially habitable planets could have deep resonance

That’s Maths: Significance of Kepler’s theory on orbital periods shown in Trappist-1A

Harmony was at the core of Johannes Kepler’s cosmic model

That’s Maths: For Kepler, music played a key role in the emergence of the new astronomy

Boldly going where no nun had gone before? An Irishman’s Diary about Renaissance astronomy and the strange tale of Benedetta Carlini

Shooting for the stars

The compelling case for Ireland to be more ambitious