Space

Sabry was told that engineering would be too difficult for her to study. She is now a PhD student in aerospace sciences and is conducting research at the Nasa-funded Human…

30 June is International Asteroid Day. We have sprinted across the solar system to bring you the best in star-showered pieces

Installing a wireless network on the Moon is just one step toward establishing a long-term human presence there

It is unlikely that they will be rescued in time. Even if they survived, they are doomed,”

Let us entertain the notion — if only for a moment — that cephalopods may be from space. How would we go about testing the hypothesis?

Even if we develop the technology to build pressurised hamster balls, it needs to be recreated on Mars.

Evidence of a distant giant planet lurking secretly in our solar system is compelling, according to researchers.

Scientists hope the Philae lander robot can get enough of a power boost through a battery recharge to carry out more research tasks.

Nanotechnology has made it possible for even poorer countries to stake a claim in space.

Scientists in the Western Cape town watch more than whales – they have a flair for space weather too.

A South African astrophysicist is part of a team seeking to drag ancient cosmic secrets out of the polar skies.

Astronomers are discovering more and more exoplanets that could support life as we know it, but distance from a sun is only one critical requirement.

Researchers believe a newly discovered galaxy is the solution to the mystery of missing stars.

Scientists in Europe announced the landing of a robot lab Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, enabling it to send back scientific information.

Scientists turned to digital modelling to study the Dreadnoughtus dinosaur and have finally defined where our galaxy is in the universe.