The lineup has been announced for the 33rd edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF), spotlighting 14 ...

Through this year’s theme, “As the Stars Sow the Earth,” the festival celebrates cosmic agents that have sown memory, will, and possibility into Africa and ...

South Africa is using homegrown technology to answer questions about where our universe came from and where it is going.

With data gathered through the MeerKAT radio telescope, Thato Manamela identified the brightest and most distant “space laser” or hydroxyl megamaser yet discovered. The postdoctoral researcher at the ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

For decades, conversations about UFOs—now often referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—have occupied an unusual place in public life. Many people are curious about the possibility of ...

Eight billion years ago, two galaxies slammed into each other. Gas clouds collided. Dust thickened. New stars ignited at furious rates. In the middle of that cosmic chaos a natural radio laser began ...

South African filmmaker John Barker (“Umbrella Men”) will be following the fate of Africa’s soccer squads at this summer’s World Cup, as he preps a documentary that will look at the continent’s ...

When this special radio light is exceptionally bright, it is termed a megamaser—a "cosmic beacon" that can be seen across vast stretches of the universe. A record-breaking cosmic gigamaser This newly ...

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology. This feature describes how one of the most important variables in cosmology, the expansion of the universe, takes on ...

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy hosted a film screening and conversation about the legacy of apartheid in South Africa on Wednesday. The Feb. 25 event displayed Tara Erica ...