Kimani Wa Nyoike remembers the first time he saw Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn lined up from Samburu in northern Kenya.

Across continents and cultures, people have gathered under the stars for centuries, weaving cosmic wonders into their ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

Italy has warmed up for its two rugby tests against world champion South Africa by thrashing Namibia 73-6 in Windhoek. The margin was Italy’s biggest in a test away from home, eclipsing the ...

Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two ...

The MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo region of South Africa, includes an array of 64 radio dishes and has been operational since July 2018. The powerful telescope is sensitive to faint ...

South Africa was a good place to study and work in astronomy, especially because of SALT, the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, and the upcoming SKA telescope.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, and home to Supernova 1987A. It's also home to the huge star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula.