This summer, science-fiction enthusiasts and curious minds alike will have the unique opportunity to explore a mesmerising collection of robots, cyborgs, and androids. Science-fiction fans are ...

While the modern planetarium site in Armagh was first opened in 1968, the observatory itself was first established in 1790 by Archbishop Robinson. Among the telescopes that can be seen in Armagh ...

A new planetarium dome show experience Music for Domes, featuring a breathtaking original soundtrack by award-winning Irish folk musician RÓIS, will launch this month ...

Michael O’Shea explores astronomy's incredible history with the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium. Matthew McMahon is the Museum Collections Officer at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium in ...

One such scientist is Prof Louise Harra, who is a solar physicist at ETH Zürich, director of PMOD/WRC (World Radiation Center) and a member of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium management team.

Dr Erin Higgins is an astrophysicist who works at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, where she researches the lives and deaths of the most massive stars in the universe. Higgins has a ...

Irish government funding could be the "start of a long journey" for Armagh Observatory to obtain Unesco World Heritage Status, the observatory's director has said. On Tuesday, €800m (£685m) was ...

Three of the staff at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium have been appointed to leading roles in the global astronomical community in what has been described as a historic “extraordinary ...

Prof Michael Burton, director of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, which was founded in the 1790s, said he hoped the funding would help historic sites reach Unesco's "tentative list" for ...