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

The largest cloud of energetic particles ever seen was recently discovered, revealing new clues about galaxy cluster ...

A vast, glowing halo enveloping a galaxy cluster has been discovered, defying expectations and pointing to turbulent cosmic ...

Astronomers have uncovered a bizarre star, ASKAP J1832, that pulses radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes—thousands of times slower than typical pulsars. This rare object also dims dramatically over ...

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.

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has joined forces with the European VLBI Network (EVN), one of the world’s most sensitive and advanced very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) systems.

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 ...

The star, which has been named ASKAP J1832, is behaving like no other seen before according to Nasa. Find out more here.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.

The MeerKAT radio telescope is made up of 64 giant white dishes that stand in a semi-desert region in South Africa South Africa hosts one of the world’s largest radio telescopes which has among ...