What is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)? The SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope when it comes online in the coming decade. It will consist of thousands of dishes and antennas spread out ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

A giant galaxy measuring 3.3 million light-years across has been found by astronomers using the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A map of the sky overlaid on a portion of single MeerKAT pointings containing a few thousand ...

Cabinet was on Wednesday updated on the progress made with the MeerKAT radio telescope project, says Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe. The MeerKAT ...

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

The first time I moved to South Africa was in 2016, after I won a research grant to spend six months at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in Cape Town. I was drawn to the country by ...