Discover South Africa’s top stargazing destinations where heritage and history meet the night sky, from Sutherland to Namaqualand.

Astronomers first thought these red dots were ancient galaxies. They appeared unusually mature for their early universe age.

While the James Webb Space Telescope stunned the world with its clarity and depth, NASA’s latest telescope takes things even further. With improved infrared detection and higher resolution imaging, it ...

Learners from Carnarvon High School, Northern Cape, traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia, for the World Robot Olympiad Open Championship (from the left): Roswell Pipes, Jerome Visagie, Eugenio Nuwegeld, ...

A new observatory in South Wairarapa lets visitors watch exploding stars far away - and take the photos home with them. The Cretney Observatory, which opened Saturday 13 September, boasts a powerful ...

The mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's "little red dots" could be solved if they are not ancient galaxies but are entirely new celestial objects called "black hole stars." ...

Planetary nebulae, formed when red giant stars exhaust their fuel, can sometimes be spectacular (see the Hourglass Nebula) ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

Gary passed away at home in Tehachapi at the age of 73. He was a man with wide interests, ranging from astronomy, theater and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be ...