If you’ve ever wondered when humans might exist on a planet not our own, wonder no more. There’s a working…
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South Africa continues its contribution to the research of outer space. But BOOTES 6, the new robotic optical telescope set…
Reducing carbon emissions from roads, railways and shipping requires implementing a range of solutions simultaneously. As far as cars are…
The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Gaia mission has just released new data. The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, with the aim…
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…