Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is…
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There’s an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature’s laws which physicists have been trying to explain for decades.…
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…
If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a…
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 –…
The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb…
Humans experience all manner of things every day without noticing it. You walk through massive magnetic fields. You are bombarded…
Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from…