An astronomical telescope designed to complement the ageing Hubble Space Telescope lifted off from New Zealand’s south island on April 16 2023.…
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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…
First detected accidentally by US military satellites in the late 1960s, cosmic explosions known as gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have come to…
South Africa and stargazing have a particularly long history but there’s a time and a place for everything. That time…
New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world – and beyond. Among them are the Giant…
We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies,…