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 ...
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...
Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have confirmed a persistent hydroxyl gigamaser signal originating ...
Astronomers have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect a powerful cosmic laser over 8 billion light-years away, marking a record-breaking discovery.
A record-breaking cosmic signal detected by South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope is signalling a deeper shift in where frontier ...
After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...
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 ...
The MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that MeerKAT is already the best radio telescope of its kind in the ...
Locals are hoping that astrotourism will create sustainable jobs in an area struggling with high unemployment. A unique ...