THE CONVERSATION How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far? An astrophysicist explains its super-cold secret 5 min 0 By Adi Foord
THE CONVERSATION A strange bright burst in space baffled astronomers for more than a year. Now, they’ve solved the mystery 5 min 0 By Clancy William James
THE CONVERSATION Is Mars really red? A physicist explains the planet’s reddish hue 4 min 0 By David Joffe
THE CONVERSATION If the universe is infinite, what is it expanding into? Here are ways to tackle a cosmic brain teaser 5 min 3 By Nicole Granucci
‘SCIENTIFIC OLYMPICS’ World’s largest astronomy conference kicks off in Cape Town, in a first for Africa 3 min 0 By Lisakanya Venna
THE CONVERSATION MeerKAT: the South African radio telescope that’s transformed our understanding of the cosmos 5 min 1 By Ed Elson
SPACE SCIENCE Journey to the stars — South Africa’s new astronomers unlocking secrets of the cosmos 5 min 3 By Patricia Ann Whitelock, Daniel Cunnama and Rosalind Skelton
THE CONVERSATION Humans are still hunting for aliens – here’s how astronomers are looking for life beyond Earth 5 min 1 By Sara Webb
SPACED OUT The sensational Martian canals — life on the Red Planet as perceived by Percival Lowell 7 min 2 By Don Pinnock
THE CONVERSATION We don’t know if dark matter exists. So why do astronomers keep looking? 5 min 0 By Gauri Sharma
THE CONVERSATION Two experts break down the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and explain what we’ve already learnt 6 min 0 By Karl Glazebrook and Simon Driver
THE CONVERSATION African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries 4 min 0 By Roger Deane and Iniyan Natarajan
THE CONVERSATION Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time 4 min 0 By Adam McMaster and Andrew Norton
Cosmic Tech Why the launch of the James Webb telescope could be the most important event of our lifetime 7 min 7 By Unknown Author
THE CONVERSATION Some black holes are anything but black – and we’ve found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones 4 min 0 By Jessica Thorne and Sabine Bellstedt
THE CONVERSATION A quarter of Sun-like stars eat their own planets, according to new research 3 min 0 By Lorenzo Spina
SPACE Celebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory 6 min 2 By Karel van der Vyver
MAVERICK CITIZEN: ASTRONOMY FOR ALL Exploring the words to discover a universe of other worlds 6 min 0 By Unknown Author
