Scientists discovered 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025, making it the third interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system. This massive comet, several miles wide, travels at an incredible ...

3I/ATLAS is back in the conspiracy web, and whether you are a space enthusiast or a curious reader, the recent viral news ...

More than 100 researchers and students from South Africa and around the world are meeting this week to share plans to use the MeerKAT radio telescope. The MeerKAT Science Workshop will be held at the ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT radio ...

In the span of a few months, comet 3I/ATLAS became a real-world stress test for humanity’s most sensitive “are we alone?” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way. Measuring 3.3 million light-years from end-to-end, the cosmic megastructure was ...

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 ...

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 ...