NASA's plans for the 2020s include landing humans on the Moon, detecting quakes on Mars, and defending Earth from deadly asteroids

One year ago, NASA announced it would send astronauts back to the moon. Since then, new...

NASA's future missions will explore an icy moon of Jupiter, collect samples on Mars, and more. Here's what's coming in the next 10 years.

NASA intends to return to the moon, continue on to Mars, and look for life near Saturn...

SA’s new giant telescope discovers massive bubbles in the Milky Way - by accident

The giant bubbles of radiation are expanding from the centre of the Milky Way.

Watch: A South African telescope just found a runaway star racing at more than 2,000km a second

It is unlikely to hit the Earth.

Update: this is the cloud prediction for tonight's ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse, plus the best places to watch it from

The Moon will be fully eclipsed for about 2 hours starting at 7:15PM, with totality...

These are the best places in SA to watch the ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse, if the weather holds

The Moon will be fully eclipsed for about 2 hours starting at 7:15PM on Friday 27 July,...

On Friday SA unveils the R4.4 billion MeerKAT telescope. Here’s what it’s for.

Astronomers will use the precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to help probe the...

Spain boosts cash-strapped mega telescope plan in South Africa and Australia

Spain has joined 10 other countries in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation.