“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Astronomers discover Inkathazo, a massive giant radio galaxy spanning 3 million light-years, using South Africa's MeerKAT ...
The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.
MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...
The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424, lies approximately 567 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.