Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24…
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When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across…
The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement surrounding the…
South Africa’s Karoo region is a vast semi-arid area that stretches across four of the country’s provinces. It is sparsely…
An astronomical telescope designed to complement the ageing Hubble Space Telescope lifted off from New Zealand’s south island on April 16 2023.…
I used to love rocket launches when I was younger. During every launch, I imagined what it would feel like…
South African astronomy started an important journey two decades ago, when an initiative to attract and train future scientists in…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from the surface of near-Earth…
Something remarkable is happening in a remote part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in a semi-desert area called the…
The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in…