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…
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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,…
Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky…
South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array has already amassed quite a string of feats. It has provided new information about…
The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…