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The first scientific paper based on observations from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) has been accepted for publication in a scientific journal.
Nasa's Kepler planet-hunting telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing a US mission that opened up whole new possibilities on life outside the solar system.
Sky gazers across the Australian Outback have been among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse as the moon glided between Earth and the sun.
The Square Kilometre Array Organisation has opened its international headquarters in the UK as it pushes to complete the construction of the giant scientific instrument.
The operators of the Hubble Space Telescope say the orbiting observatory has snapped photos of an approaching comet.
Using a Nasa space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life may exist, astronomers have found the most Earth-like candidates yet.
Light captured from when the Universe was still in its childhood has shown a massive galaxy that churned out nearly 3 000 stars per year, a rate 2 000 greater than our own Milky Way today.
British physicist Stephen Hawking has urged continuing space exploration for humanity's sake.
The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network has come a step closer to completion with the installation of three telescopes in Sutherland.
Reports of a flash of light that streaked across the sky over the US East Coast appear to be a "single meteor event," the US space agency says.
A detailed map of the most ancient light in the cosmos has revealed our Universe to be about 80 million years older than thought.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will be looking for signs of life on other planets, project director Bernie Fanaroff said.
The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope is one of the most exciting science projects of the century, project director Bernie Fanaroff has said.
The Square Kilometre Array organisation has called for design proposals on the giant science endeavour, as the project gets off the ground.
The world's largest ground-based astronomy project has opened for business, ready to probe the universe with unprecedented might.
