Space Week

As the year comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the year in Space. I’ve put together some of my favourite moments and ground-breaking events that took place in the past 12 months globally and closer to home. And there were many…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. In this instalment, Mark Conroy takes us to infinity and beyond...  Truth to be…

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dir. Stanley Kubrick In many ways, what is there left to be said about 2001? With the exception of Citizen Kane and a handful of others, there are very few films which have had as much ink spilled over…

One million of us dear humans are going to Mars. How? Elon Musk’s very large rocket. No seriously, Musk is building a rocket bigger than a football field to fly to Mars. This isn’t the first outrageous task Musk has set his enormous brain…

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Headstuff. Its mission: to explore strange new literary forms, to seek out new poems and new writing, to boldly go where no-one has gone before." La-laah, la-la-la,…

Our solar system is home to at least 181 moons – that's probably 180 more than you thought, right? And unlike our own dull rock, some of these moons are breathtakingly beautiful, geologically active, and may potentially harbour life. There…

In this taster edition of Socialising Science we whet your appetite for science in preparation for Space Week, next week 3rd-8th October, with an exciting free event this Friday in Trinity College Dublin. PROBE Friday September 30th,…