Five years after groundbreaking, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) project has released its first color images, marking the achievement of 'first light' and the successful debut of ...

Item 1 of 2 People look at South Africa's prototype dish of the Square Kilometre Array-Mid telescope outside the town of Carnarvon, with a similar ceremony taking place in SKA co-host Australia on ...

From stargazing in Sutherland to gold panning in Pilgrim’s Rest, these South African towns don’t just offer travels — they ...

South African Telescope Discovers a Giant Galaxy That's 32 Times Bigger Than Earth's. SKA Africa. ... when it commences science operations around 2028, be the world's largest telescope.

Powerful 'megamaser' space laser spotted by South African telescope. By Ashley Strickland, CNN ... up to 1 million low-frequency antennas in an effort to build the world's largest radio telescope.

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (Prime) telescope. This is ...

A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast ... like black holes or small clumps of dark ...

When Lungelo Zondi first learnt about stars and galaxies at primary school in South Africa, she dreamt of having a live feed into the universe for uninterrupted space exploration. Today, aged 25 ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered a massive new radio galaxy spanning more than 32 times the size of the Milky Way, ... The international big science project was jointly funded, ...

Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth ...