The risk that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will strike Earth in eight years was reduced to 1.5% on Wednesday, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Only 24 ...

As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, researchers are refining its orbit — and its ...

Chances are increasing that a large asteroid, dubbed YR4, will strike Earth in 2032, possibly resulting in large-scale ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

FILE PHOTO: Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi in Lobito, Angola ...

“The integration of astro-tourism with flagship astronomy projects like MeerKAT, South African Large Telescope (SALT), and now PRIME underscores the Department’s commitment to leveraging ...

In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas ... However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, has turned this idea on its head: in the past five ...

4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, delivers a speech during a plenary session in the Congress Hall, during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic ...

The SALT Astronomy software team supports SALT Astronomy Operations to operate, maintain, and develop software for the scientific analysis of observations from the Southern African Large Telescope. We ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...

They were once considered rare, but new radio telescopes like South Africa’s MeerKAT have changed that idea ... Inkathazo is located in the center of a galaxy cluster, which should make it hard for ...