Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars. We…
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Look up at the night sky with your naked eye, and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the…
NASA plans to soon launch a new space telescope that will survey a billion galaxies to trace how the universe evolved over…
NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy.…
Astronomers are uncovering previously hidden structures within some of the universe’s largest objects, known as galaxy clusters. Using the powerful MeerKAT…
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years of observing the sky. SALT is the largest optical telescope in the…
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s US$10 billion (AU$15 billion)…
When the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science’s biggest data challenges.…
The evening of 7 September will see a blood moon rising over South Africa as a total lunar eclipse takes…
Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with…