Sweden is about to become a member of the SKA Observatory, a global collaboration that builds and operates advanced radio telescopes in Australia and South Africa.

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

Meanwhile, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)—a massive array of antennas under construction—will map fluctuations in cosmic signals across vast regions of the sky.

The team aspires to use REACH (the Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen) and Square Kilometer Array (SKA) to examine the first radio signals emitted from the early universe, with both ...

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.

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

Minister Mantashe, who favours lifting the moratorium on fracking in the Karoo, says mining in South Africa ‘can’t be killed for the sake of fresh air'.