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Join us for the official opening of the festival with music, refreshments and stargazing.

As part of our Opening Night Event, we will have the first Dark Sky Walk of the winter season

Explore the night sky above Burrishoole Abbey with Newport Astronomy Club.

Choose your telescope with confidence, with practical advice from KTec’s Stephen Kershaw.

Choose your telescope with confidence, with practical advice from KTec’s Stephen Kershaw.

Step inside our free mobile planetarium and explore the wonders of the night sky.

Discover how studying Borneo’s wildlife after dark helped make the case for conservation.

Discover simple ways your family can make a difference for our planet.

Explore the landscape around Ballycroy Visitor Centre on a free guided walk.

Discover why Pluto lost its planet status and what New Horizons revealed.

Meet the elusive woodcock and discover what it does after dark.

Explore Mulranny’s shoreline with Conor Ryan and discover the creatures living there.

Stories of lighthouse life, the Atlantic and Blacksod’s extraordinary connection to D-Day.

Explore Voyager’s Golden Record and imagine what message we would send today.

Discover why wildlife needs darkness with scientist and The Chase star Darragh Ennis.

A documentary exploring courage, loss and community during West Mayo’s struggle for independence.

Explore cloudy Titan with John Zarnecki, who helped make this extraordinary mission happen.

Pause at sunset and watch the world change as darkness gently falls.

An elegant evening of dining, music and celebration at the heart of the festival.

Explore the night sky above Burrishoole Abbey with Newport Astronomy Club.

Follow NASA’s daring attempt to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

Choose your telescope with confidence, with practical advice from KTec’s Stephen Kershaw.

Step inside our free mobile planetarium and explore the wonders of the night sky.

Four decades of bats, wildlife conservation and occasionally getting lost along the way.

Explore the landscape around Ballycroy Visitor Centre on a free guided walk.

Niall Smith explores the growing problem of space junk, the dangers it poses to spacecraft and satellites, and what we can do to clean up our increasingly crowded skies.

Build an astronaut, launch a rocket or imagine an alien world in this hands-on space adventure with LEGO.

Discover how moonlight, temperature and wind influence the calls of the elusive corncrake

Explore Earth’s living history through art, deep time and Mayo’s dark skies.

How do we build spacecraft on Earth that work millions of miles away?