A young meerkat found alone in the Northern Cape is getting a second chance through a rewilding programme at Shamwari Private Game Reserve.

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...

What is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)? The SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope when it comes online in the coming decade. It will consist of thousands of dishes and antennas spread out ...

The Square Kilometre Array South Africa (SKA SA) is the agency that drove South Africa’s bid to host the €1.5-billion international SKA radio telescope and the MeerKAT programme. South Africa’s ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

The MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that MeerKAT is already the best radio telescope of its kind in the ...

With their whiskered faces and high-pitched calls, meerkats don’t appear particularly menacing. But, female meerkats are, in fact, capable of vicious behavior, including harassing rivals, exiling them ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, South African scientists have detected a record-breaking radio laser from a distant galaxy, ...