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| Aug 26, 2026 | The hole in the law above the Karoo | The legal shield around South Africa’s most valuable scientific instrument does not reach the objects most likely to interfere with it.
The Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Area (KCAAA), established under the country’s Astronomy Geographic... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Why South Africa is sending spheres to the moon | AI-generated image/Africa2Moon
A set of South African-designed spheres is headed for the moon, where they will form what their creators say will be the world’s first radio telescope array on the lunar surface – with Stellenbosch University ... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | South Africa's Meerkat Telescope Is Mapping Previously Invisible Spaces Between Galaxies - and It's Found 60 New Cosmic Structures | Astronomers are uncovering previously hidden structures within some of the universe's largest objects, known as galaxy clusters. Using the powerful MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, researchers have mapped faint, diffuse radio emissi... |
| Mar 12, 2026 | UCT astronomers uncover vast hidden supercluster behind the Milky Way | A team led by University of Cape Town astronomers has revealed the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby universe, using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope and the Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) to pe... |
| Feb 19, 2026 | MeerKAT detects most powerful natural radio laser ever observed | One of the MeerKAT antennas in the Karoo
South African astronomers have detected the most distant and powerful natural radio laser ever observed. The signal comes from a galaxy more than eight billion light years away and was detected using... |
| Jan 8, 2026 | South Africa’s giant SKA telescope clears major technical hurdle | The “big lift” of the main reflector onto the pedestal for the first SKA-Mid production dish on site in South Africa. The lift took place on 4 July 2024. Photo credit: SKAO/Max Alexander, CC BY 3.0
South Africa’s role at the heart of one of... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | South Africa: Karoo Learners Participate in International Robotics Competition | Two teams from Carnarvon High School took part in the World Robot Olympiad Open Championship in Slovenia
Learners from Carnarvon High School, Northern Cape, traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia, earlier this month to represent South Africa in th... |
| Sep 7, 2025 | ИИ и НЛО: два самых больших «если» человечества наконец встретились | Десятилетия поисков внеземного разума упёрлись в фундаментальную проблему: космос неимоверно велик и шумен, а земные помехи лишь усложняют задачу. Традиционные методы SETI буксуют в петабайтах данных, но сегодня на сцену выходит новый, куда... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode | WASHINGTON: Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that occurred when a massive star t... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Karoo collision: Starlink vs science in South African skies | Sarao’s Adrian Tiplady
The explosive growth in the number of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, from providers like Elon Musk’s Starlink, poses a direct threat to astronomical research facilities the world over, including those in South Afri... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | The Battle for the Skies: South Africa's Astronomers vs. Starlink | In the vast expanse of the cosmos, South Africa's astronomers find themselves at a crossroads. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a groundbreaking radio telescope, stands poised to unlock the universe's secrets. Yet, a new player threatens t... |
| Jun 2, 2025 | SA scientists want Musk’s Starlink out of their space | Esa Alexander/file photo/Reuters
Astronomers working with South Africa’s SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink will protect their groundbreaking observations, a senior scienti... |
| Jan 27, 2025 | South Africa’s MeerKAT in ‘extraordinary’ discovery | Inkathazo’s glowing plasma jets are shown in red and yellow. The starlight from other surrounding galaxies can be seen in the background. KKL Charlton (UCT), MeerKAT, HSC, Carta, IDIA. Licence: CC BY
You may not know it, but right now there... |
| Jan 26, 2025 | South African Telescope Discovers a Giant Galaxy That's 32 Times Bigger Than Earth's | You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times t... |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Hidden South African observatory quietly shapes our view of space | Nestled in a natural bowl surrounded by hills 50km north-west of Johannesburg, the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO), with its collection of radio dishes, looks quite out of place.
The road that snakes towards the observa... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | The Cosmic Stage: Africa Hosts the Astronomy Olympics | In a world where science often takes a backseat to spectacle, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is flipping the script. The 32nd General Assembly, a grand gathering of the brightest minds in astronomy, is taking place in Cape Town,... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Astronomy Olympics is being hosted in Africa for the first time | The Salt observatory in Sutherland
Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the sun, are just a few of the topics that will be on the table in Cape Town for an event that’s a scientific ... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | The South African telescope that transformed our understanding of the cosmos | An antenna in the MeerKAT telescope
The Karoo is sparsely populated and renowned for its wide-open spaces. In the heart of this landscape, near the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory operate... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | South Africa: Meerkat - the South African Radio Telescope That's Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos | South Africa's Karoo region is a vast semi-arid area that stretches across four of the country's provinces. It is sparsely populated and renowned for its wide open spaces.
In the heart of this landscape, near the small Northern Cape town of... |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Low-frequency network gets around SKA’s need for radio silence | Telviva CEO David Meintjesmeint
South Africa is an important global player in astronomy, with optical and radio astronomy centres near Carnarvon, in the country’s sparsely populated Northern Cape.
But local communities who live around the r... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | How astronomers used MeerKAT to uncover ‘Sauron’ | An antenna making up part of the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa
New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world – and beyond. Among them are the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | South Africa: Astronomers Used Machine Learning to Mine Data From South Africa's Meerkat Telescope - What They Found | New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world - and beyond. Among them are the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile, and the James Webb Space Telescope, which is parked a mi... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Meet SA tech firm Alphawave’s deeptech bets
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Success! | According to data from Venture Capital Journal, funding for deeptech startups quadrupled from $15 billion in 2016 to $60 billion in 2020. More data from deeptech investment firm, MVF Partners, shows that deeptech had about 120 unicorns with... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Astronomers Combine 64 Telescopes to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe | April Fowell, Tech Times 20 June 2022, 10:06 pm
For the first time, astronomers have combined 64 radio telescope dishes to detect faint signatures of neutral hydrogen gas across cosmological scales.
(Photo : MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP via Getty I... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Neutron Star Appears With Faint Signal, MeerKAT Radio Telescope Detects Bizarre Pulse | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 17 June 2022, 09:06 pm
A neutron star manifested among researchers, and it is one that is bizarre for it brings a faint signal that is slow compared to other space objects that are of the same category. It is sign... |
| May 23, 2022 | Bernie Fanaroff – the scientist who put African astronomy on the map | Bernie Fanaroff. Image: Sarao
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio quiet zones, making it the ideal home for many advanced telescopes trained on o... |
| May 20, 2022 | How Visionary Scientist Bernie Fanaroff Put African Astronomy On The Map | Without Dr Bernie Fanaroff, the SKA might never have come to South African shores. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images |
| Mar 26, 2022 | Astronomers spot a vast, mysterious circle in space | Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have released the highest resolution yet of the str... |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Astronomers believe they can finally explain these bizarre circular space ‘blobs’ | Originally Published by:
I went speed dating in the metaverse even though I’m married Nasa reveals mind-blowing birds-eye image of Mars Elon Musk sets date for 1st spaceflight with Starship megarocket Humans on Mars may feast on gene-edited... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Humongous Shock Wave in Space is Bigger than the Milky Way Galaxy, But What Are They? | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 24 February 2022, 09:02 pm
Researchers discover a humongous shock wave in space and the size of it is on an enormous scale, with the study seeing it larger compared to the Milky Way galaxy to which Earth is residi... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Ученые опубликовали радиоизображение черной дыры в центре Млечного Пути | Ученые из Южноафриканской радиоастрономической обсерватории (SARAO) опубликовали радиоизображение центра Млечного Пути с телескопа MeerKAT. Им удалось зафиксировать сверхмассивную черную дыру Стрелец А* в центре Млечного Пути.Чёрная точка р... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | New MeerKAT Radio Image Reveals Complex Heart Of The Milky Way | The new MeerKAT image of the Galactic centre region is shown with the Galactic plane running horizontally across the image. Many new and previously-known radio features are evident, including supernova remnants, compact star-forming regions... |
| Nov 21, 2021 | TAKE A LOOK | SA's MeerKAT telescope spent 1,000 hours staring into space – here's what it saw | A wide-field view of one of the cluster fields showing several different types of radio structures imaged by MeerKAT (Image: SARAO)
The MeerKAT radio telescope in the Northern Cape captures electromagnetic radiation emitted by galaxy cluste... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | Scientists Detect Radio Signals From Galaxy's Center, Have No Clue What It Is | ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.
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Scientists have discovered a new cluster of unknown radio waves emanating from our galaxy’s center. According to scient... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Analysis Of 2 000 Galaxies Using The MeerKat Radio Telescope Reveals Fresh Insights | South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO).(X-ray |
| Feb 7, 2021 | Two supermoons, and two planetary conjunctions – what to watch for in SA skies in Feb and beyond | A star trail capture of Table Mountain. Photo Jay Caboz
Daniel Cunnama, Science Engagement Astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), gave Business Insider South Africa his list of highlights to keep an eye out for in ... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | South Africa’s MeerKAT uncovers two rare giant radio galaxies | |
| Jan 19, 2021 | South Africa’s MeerKAT uncovers two rare giant radio galaxies | The two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope. In the background is the sky as seen in optical light. Overlaid in red is the radio light from the enormous radio galaxies, as seen by MeerKAT. I Heywood (Oxford/Rhodes/Sarao)
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| Разбор радиоизображений MeerKAT — что находится прямо в сердце Млечного Пути | В конце января Южноафриканская радиоастрономическая обсерватория (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, SARAO) выложила в общий доступ радиоизображения центра Млечного Пути, демонстрирующие особенности радиоизлучения в этой области с н... |
