The 2026 Big Data Africa School started on Monday, 5 October 2026, in Cape Town, marking the 6th edition of the popular ...

The third SARAO Open Day for 2026 was attended by members of all ages and from different parts of the country, on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. Hosted by the SARAO Communication and Stakeholder ...

The SARAO Innovation Management office hosted the inaugural South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) Innovation Awards ...

Record breaker dates back to just 3 billion years after the big bang. In research published today in the journal Science, ...

The primary goal of PAPER is to detect emission from the neutral gas that pervaded the universe before the first galaxies and black holes were formed. This ‘epoch of reionization’, as it is called, is ...

The AVN will help to develop the skills, regulations and institutional capacity needed in SKA partner countries to optimise African participation in the SKA and enable participation in SKA pathfinder ...

Registration for the SARAO Open Day is closed. Registrations for the Public Site Visit to be held on Wednesday, 8 July 2026, are now open. We thank everyone who has registered and look forward to ...

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SARAO Managing Director Ms Pontsho Maruping was appointed SARAO Managing Director effective from 01 October 2022. She directs and manages... Pumeza Shai is the SKA-Mid Deputy Telescope Director. In ...

Astronomers may have just confirmed one of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics: that seemingly empty space can alter the behaviour of light. This phenomenon, called ‘vacuum birefringence’, was ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has successfully conducted very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations with telescopes of the European VLBI Network (EVN)—currently the world’s most ...

University of Pretoria-led team opens a new frontier using the power of MeerKAT and strong gravitational lensing Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most ...