Physicists and scientists gathered in Hong Kong to map out past, present and future discoveries in mathematics, life sciences ...

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 ...

As South African scientists continue to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, their findings fuel an increasingly vibrant ...

MeerKAT and NASA's Swift detected OH signals from 3I/ATLAS, confirming it's outgassing water-related molecules.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has produced a radio signal unlike any ever recorded, leaving astronomers puzzled and ...

A few days before its perihelion, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS emanated radio signals, captured by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope on October 24, 2025. What exactly was the radio whisper by ...

On November 5, 2025, the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa embarked on a groundbreaking mission to explore potential technological signals from the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. This endeavor ...

Thanks to MeerKat, this detection was possible. The radio telescope was able to detect the signals from the interstellar object when it was 3.76 degrees away from the Sun, almost seven times the Sun’s ...

A radio signal? That would have to confirm the object is technlogical in nature, wouldn't it? The thing is, this isn't a ...

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 ...