This is a new chapter for high-resolution radio astronomy, enabling scientists to study the universe in greater detail than ever before.

South Africa's large radio telescope MeerKAT consists of 64 satellite dishes, each 13.5 meters in diameter, distributed over an area of up to 8 km in the Karoo region.

The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) announced on Tuesday that its MeerKAT radio telescope array had for the first time, and successfully, participated in a regular international ...

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth ...

The light from this space laser traveled a whopping 36 thousand billion billion miles to reach our planet.

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

Astronomers working with South Africa's SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink will protect their groundbreaking observations, a senior ...

An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength ...