NRF-SAAO hosts Indian High Commission for symbolic handover celebrating astronomy collaboration The National Research Foundation’s South African Astronomical Observatory (NRF-SAAO) was pleased to ho...
Vela: The True Scale of a Hidden Giant Structure Revealed Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden structure in the Universe that had remained concealed behind the dust and stars of our own Milky W...
UK–South Africa partnership uses AI to make telescopes smarter Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform how South Africa’s leading astronomical observatories operate. The Science and Techn...
South African Telescopes to Follow-Up Rubin Observatory Alerts This Week Cape Town, South Africa — 25 February 2026 — The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is about to begin observing...
A Phoenix Rises: SALT Reveals Massive Star WOH G64 is Still a Red Supergiant Astronomers using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) have solved a cosmic mystery surrounding one of the most extr...
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been awarded a prestigious Science Diplomacy Award at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), held from 24–28 November at ...
SALT Turns 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Discovery This month marks a major milestone for South African and global astronomy — the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years since ...
Astronomers using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will soon be able to hunt for and study planets orbiting distant stars. This exciting new science capability for SALT stems from the add...
The discovery of a rare type of spinning white dwarf star in a binary star system – only the second one known – provides a new understanding of the role of magnetic fields in stellar evolution. ...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in collaboration with South African astronomers, have discovered a rare white dwarf binary star system, located in the Large Mag...