The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…
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Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets…
Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts…
On July 31 2013 a constellation of US defence satellites saw a streak of light over South Australia as a rock from…
Humans have been trying to get back to the moon for a long time. NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, launching tomorrow,…
Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is…
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…