The Southern African Large Telescope, Africa’s largest optical telescope, has celebrated its 20th anniversary of astronomical ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), which is Africa’s largest optical telescope and one of the most powerful in the ...

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...

Join the celebration of the Southern African Large Telescope's 20-year journey, where groundbreaking discoveries and international collaboration have transformed our understanding of the cosmos.

Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile.

On April 10, 2024, astronomers began the fast-paced mission to capture supernova SN 2024ggi. Study coauthor Yi Yang of Tsinghua University in China initially learned about its sighting shortly after ...

A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...