(Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Esa Alexander)[/caption] MeerKAT, which is among South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure projects of the 30 year period since democracy ...

Defence and security is one of the key focus areas of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and is ...

Harnessing the extraordinary capabilities of South Africa’s world-renowned MeerKAT radio telescope, compelling evidence has been discovered for a low-frequency gravitational wave background.

Prof Tim Clutton-Brock at the University of Cambridge and his team spent years observing Meerkat groups in the northern Cape of South Africa, starting all the way back in the 1990s, and almost ...

The South Africa government is looking to invest millions into its science and astronomy tourism - dubbed Astro-Tourism.

A major astronomical discovery has just been made using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. A giant radio galaxy, named Inkathazo, has been identified, with plasma jets extending over phenomenal ...

The scientists reported using data from the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa to track the slight changes in the timing of radio waves coming from more than 80 pulsars—rapidly ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known structures in the Universe.

The species comes from the Seychelles, a group of islands off Africa where they are the largest animals in the country. They can live up to 200 years. A mob of 20 busy meerkats greets visitors ...

Science, Technology and Innovation on presentation of South Africa’s National Astro-Tourism Strategy to Parliament ...