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Celebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory

Karel van der Vyver
16 OCT
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Exploring the words to discover a universe of other worlds

Christi Nortier
05 FEB
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First image of black hole marks ‘breakthrough for humanity’

Bloomberg, Tiara Walters and News24
10 APR 2019
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Red planet and ‘blood moon’ pair up to dazzle skygazers

AFP
27 JUL 2018
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Liquid water lake discovered on Mars

AFP
25 JUL 2018
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Fresh delay in launch of NASA’s giant space telescope

AFP
28 JUN 2018
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NASA’s Mars rover drills up most complex organic matter yet

AFP
07 JUN 2018
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‘Surprising’ methane dunes found on Pluto

AFP
01 JUN 2018
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When losing your job means losing your home

GroundUp
10 MAY 2018
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SpaceX blasts off NASA’s new planet-hunter, TESS

AFP
19 APR 2018
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Astronomers find the ‘impossible’: a galaxy without dark matter

AFP
29 MAR 2018
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NASA pushes back giant space telescope launch to 2020

AFP
28 MAR 2018
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There’s a “super blue blood Moon’ on the rise

AFP
31 JAN 2018
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Blue moon will leave us standing alone – SA won’t get the triple effect

Orateng Lepodise
31 JAN 2018
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New insights into mysterious, cosmic ‘fast radio bursts’

AFP
11 JAN 2018
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Artificial intelligence finds solar system with 8 planets like ours

AFP
15 DEC 2017
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Chinese satellite closes in on dark matter mystery

AFP
30 NOV 2017
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US trio wins physics Nobel for detection of waves from black hole collisions

AFP
03 OCT 2017
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Astronomers bid farewell to $3.9 billion Saturn spacecraft

AFP
15 SEP 2017
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Total solar eclipse begins on US West Coast

AFP
21 AUG 2017
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‘Peculiar’ radio signals emerge from nearby star

AFP
18 JUL 2017
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