There’s an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature’s laws which physicists have been trying to explain for decades.…
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South Africa may not have the largest presence in space but the country certainly contributes. Our astronomy is top-notch and…
An enormous neutrino observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice has discovered only the second extra-galactic source of the elusive…
Some sights are out of this world. SpaceX invited a few photographers to capture the Falcon Heavy rocket’s launch this…
If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a…
Hidden in the minerals and textures that make up rocks are clues about how and when they formed and were…
All stars, including the Sun, have a finite lifetime. Stars shine by the process of nuclear fusion in which lighter…
If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs –…
Plans to send astronauts to Mars seem to be working out for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A…
The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb…