Meerkats are extremely social with one another ... time in the wild with our closest related species, and for a magical Africa, this place was worth the long haul to get here.

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

The discovery of 49 new galaxies in a few hours, announced earlier this year, was the latest testament to the value of South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Six years after its inauguration ...

MeerKAT is Afrikaans, meaning "more KAT", but is also the name of an endearing little mongoose-like mammal that is indigenous to the Northern Cape and other Southern African regions. The 63 others ...

In South Africa’s biggest national park, a camouflaged system of radars, cameras and sensors stands guard. The solar-powered technology is helping to protect Kruger National Park’s rhinos from ...

Yes, news of those comparison website adverts - you know the ones, with a meerkat called Aleksandr looking resplendent in a smoking jacket - has even reached southern Africa. I was in the ...

Together with Pontsho Maruping, Managing Director of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), Michael Kramer addressed the development of the MeerKAT extension (MeerKAT+) antenna and the ...

What it is, is the clearest-yet image of the centre of the Milky Way, which is a good 25,000 light years from the Karoo, in the heartland of South Africa, from where the MeerKAT radio telescope ...

It’s fostered scientific collaboration. It is also nurturing local talent. MeerKAT, which is among South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure projects of the 30 year period since ...

For example, South African colleagues have developed hardware to combine all the telescopes' data. It is now used more or less in this form in many other telescopes around the world, for example in ...