Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

Bloemfontein could become South Africa’s top astro-tourism spot, using clear skies, observatories and planetariums to draw ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

A leap into deep space Francouis Pretorius The Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) is set to position Namibia at the forefront of astronomical research, particularly in the study of black holes and high ...

Over the past two decades, SALT has achieved numerous astronomical milestones. (Image credit: SALT and Janit Alheit) The SouthernAfrican Large Telescope (SALT), Africa’s largest optical telescope and ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) — the largest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere — marks its 20th anniversary this year, commemorating two decades of groundbreaking astronomical ...

A compound with two pools in Observatory, a townhouse in Green Point and a villa in Newlands. By Roxana Popescu This restored historic compound features three houses of differing sizes that could ...

A group of dolphins creates a network of air bubbles to trap sardines before launching an attack. The African sardine run is when millions of sardines lay their eggs in the cold waters of the Agulhas ...

The sardine run takes place in June and July, when millions of sardines swim up South Africa’s east coast, attracting diving gannets, super-pods of dolphins, shivers of sharks, and even the occasional ...