The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory (SKAO) has announced that the first telescope dish for its SKA-Mid array has been assembled on site, in the Karoo region in the Northern Cape province ...

SKA South Africa and Agri SA today signed an agreement that commits both organisations to jointly ensure that local communities of the Karoo benefit from the SKA project. In anticipation of the ...

It is one of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century and will even search for extra-terrestrials.

The biggest part of the SKA telescope is being built 80km outside the town of Carnarvon, which is having a ripple effect on its economy.

Construction of the SKA-Mid array, to be located in the Karoo desert in South Africa, and the The SKA-Low array, in Western Australia north of Perth, has begun after 30 years of preparations and a ...

SKA supporters ought to be thankful Karoo residents weren’t more hostile, given the fact that its local benefits are probably less than that of “fracking”.

South Africa was shortlisted in 2006 as a SKA host because the Karoo site had already met the science, technology and infrastructure requirements determined by the international astronomy community.

The world's largest radio telescopes that will make up the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) are currently being built in South Africa and Australia.

There seems to be little chance that oil giant Shell's plans to prospect for shale gas in the Karoo Basin using the "fracking" method will have an impact on South Africa's bid to host the square ...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will contain hundreds of radio antennae spread across two continents, is now under construction in both South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's ...

The biggest part of the SKA telescope is being built 80km outside the town of Carnarvon, which is having a ripple effect on its economy.

To expand these sites, however, has required various land agreements, with farmers in the Karoo; and with the Wajarri Yamaji, the Aboriginal title holders in the Murchison.