This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such thing.
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Residents in four provinces have reported a large, fiery meteor streaking across the sky in the early hours of Sunday morning.
South African satellite and space innovators in the Western Cape university town stand out in a recent Nasa report.
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, boasting the world’s largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos.
For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet not previously known.
SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft has exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas.
IBM plans to have a practical quantum computer by 2029, and has laid out the detailed steps it will take to get there.
There are mounting concerns about the impact of Starlink and other satellite services on radioastronomy in South Africa.
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe. But what if this was not the beginning at all?
Astronomers working with South Africa’s SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink will protect their groundbreaking observations.