The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Gaia mission has just released new data. The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, with the aim…
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MeerKAT, if you’ve been paying attention, is South Africa’s newest radio telescope array. Part of the ongoing Square Kilometre Array…
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They’ll…
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980) This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious…
A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important clues into what may…
The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems. My…
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio…
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now…
Ask someone what they want their funeral to be like and they’ll probably say, “Why, what do you know?!” Once…
The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of…