A video of a meerkat getting warm by the heater describes almost every South African during winter. What kind of winter ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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