Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect…
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Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in…
Apple’s feeling a little perplexed Well, it was a fun idea while it lasted. Rather than nurture its home-grown AI…
The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building…
Elon Musk’s Starlink will connect 5,000 rural schools if it is allowed to operate in South Africa, it says. Starlink…
For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic…
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed to be a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of…
In a new study published today in Nature, we report the discovery of a new long-period transient – and, for the…
On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever…
Having Starlink finally appear on the South African landscape could significantly change how some parts of the country function. BEE…