What is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)? The SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope when it comes online in the coming decade. It will consist of thousands of dishes and antennas spread out ...

Local experts confirm that 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, behaves like a comet, dispelling theories of artificial origins ...

Physicists and scientists gathered in Hong Kong to map out past, present and future discoveries in mathematics, life sciences ...

I/ATLAS was first observed in July 2025 and is only the third interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system. Traveling at an astounding speed of over 130,000 miles per hour ...

A huge new telescope array in South Africa has just returned its stunning first image, giving us a glimpse into the distant universe. Called MeerKAT, this radio telescope array currently has 16 dishes ...

Using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map 1 of the Milky Way’s cold hydrogen gas – the raw material from which stars are born. The breakthrough, led by ...

As South African scientists continue to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, their findings fuel an increasingly vibrant ...

NASA detected radio echoes from 3I/ATLAS which human beings wanted to understand what they mean. Thus, NASA then proceeded to ...

A new radio astronomical receiver project of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has received full funding by the Max Planck Society. The scientific defined frequency range from 1.6 to 3.5 ...

A powerful radio-wave laser, called a ‘megamaser’, has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected, at ...

UCT hosted Italian astrophysicist Dr Grazia Umana to mark the conclusion of RADIOMAP, a three-year South Africa–Italy ...

South African astronomy started an important journey two decades ago, when an initiative to attract and train future scientists in the field welcomed its first group of students under the National ...