On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it's really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

From the Yorkshire Moors in England to the South African wilderness, star bathing is emerging as a transformative wellness ...

The SKA telescopes – SKA-Low in remote Western Australia and its counterpart SKA-Mid in South Africa's Northern Cape – are arrays that combine the data captured by individual antennas spread over ...

Theoretical physicists have long speculated that black holes could give rise to new universes. If true, every black hole in our universe could be the entrance to another, with information unable to ...

Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view of the early universe, but its new findings could put astronomers in a spin. In fact ...

When it comes to wildlife in South Africa, most people think of the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard, and rhino. While these animals are incredible, the country is home to many other ...

Budget announcements are rarely memorable events in South Africa. But the statement on March 12th by Enoch Godongwana, the finance minister, was one of the most notable since the end of white rule ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...