NASA’s decision to hire theologians in an attempt to assess how humans will react to the discovery of aliens has received mixed reactions.

South Africa and Russia have announced a new joint space project. It will be based in the North West. Not that luxurious, but we’ll take it!

You’ll definitely want to spend some time looking up at the sky tonight! The International Space Station will be visible from SA.

A Canadian woman is thanking her lucky stars after she escaped unharmed after a meteor hit a pillow whilst she was sleeping…

Grimes is on the rebound! The musician is joking that she wants to colonise one of Jupiter’s moons following her split from Elon Musk.

‘District 9 part 2 the shrimp are back!’: Social media users were quick on the uptake following a strange black circle ‘hovering’ over Pretoria.

From Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Tyler Perry, ‘Don’t Look Up’ features a range of Hollywood A-listers.

Bright lights and the big city: This is what Johannesburg and parts of the West and East Rand in Gauteng look like from space.

An amazing video, taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows what an aurora over South Africa looks like.

South Africa has been chosen as the base of a new space company due to its highly skilled engineers and data scientists.

Social media is still abuzz after a meteor-like object which has since been identified as a bolide, was spotted in the Gauteng skies on Tuesday.

From sharing images from space of Venice and the Dubai golf club, Nasa astronaut, Shane Kimbrough also shared one of what Cape Town looks like at night.

Since Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently ‘penisrocketed’ to space, people have had a ball of a time coming up with hilarious Tweets.

Wally Funk has spent the past 60 years trying to find a way into space after the Woman in Space Programme was shut down in 1961.

Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson has become the first person to reach space using his own space craft, the Virgin Galactic.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that he has already sold all his other houses to fund a Mars colony.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope also doubles up as a birthday photographer these days. Here’s how to find your starry birthday pic.

Article originally published by Agence France-Presse (AFP)/Laurie Chen, with Qasim Nauman. A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, China’s space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials in Beijing had said there was little risk from […]

Christie’s is selling a bottle of space wine for R14.4 million, The Petrus 2000 vintage spent 14 months in orbiting the earth.

The South African National Space Agency shared satellite images of the Cape Town fire. More than 600 hectares was destroyed by the blaze.

One lucky raffle winner will join other novice astronauts on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to outer space.

A special cargo of wine has made its way home all the way from the International Space Station.

One step closer to Mars!

A space race of a different kind has begun between Russia and the US, and this time it’s to be the first country to shoot a movie in space.

Hot Neptunes are so rare that astronomers even refer to the area close to a star as a Neptune desert.