Participants in the 6th Big Data Africa School which took place in Cape Town from 5 to 10 October 2026. The South African ...

Save the Date for CASPER 2027! SARAO is thrilled to host the Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER) Workshop 2027 in Cape Town! Join the global community for a ...

SARAO is thrilled to host the Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER) Workshop 2027 in Cape Town! Join the global community for a deep dive into the future of ...

The MeerKLASS Collaboration reports their first measurement of the large-scale clustering of cosmic hydrogen, advancing a technique that could transform how cosmologists chart the Universe. After a ...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA project) is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with a square kilometre (one million square metres) of collecting area. The scale of ...

Astronomers have found the first convincing “microblazar” in our Galaxy — a star with a black hole orbiting around it, firing a beam of near-light-speed matter almost straight towards Earth. Its ...

University of Pretoria-led team opens a new frontier using the power of MeerKAT and strong gravitational lensing Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has uncovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy nicknamed Inkathazo, meaning ‘trouble’ in the African Xhosa and Zulu languages. This discovery sheds light on the ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has successfully conducted very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations with telescopes of the European VLBI Network (EVN)—currently the world’s most ...

Astronomers may have just confirmed one of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics: that seemingly empty space can alter the behaviour of light. This phenomenon, called ‘vacuum birefringence’, was ...