Today MEERKAT was inaugurated, the largest radio telescope of its type in the world by a long way. It is already producing ground-breaking, or sky-stretching, science. and is a tremendous achievement. This extraordinary instrument is entirely South African funded and built - the World Cup Trophy of science and engineering. If ever there was a reason to blow a vuvuzela this is it. Onto other matters, if you want to take a look at the archive of the Rosetta mission, which landed on a comet in 2016, their data is now public.

Data from the Cassini mission to Saturn has been analysed and the building blocks for life have been detected. Find out more! Is there life beneath the icy surface of this planetoid?

If your home is filthy, you are simply in tune with the universe. Astronomers have revealed that interstellar space is permeated with a fine mist of grease-like molecules. How much? Enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter in our Milky Way alone. It seems to be true but fear not, the grease in our solar system is swept away by solar winds.

Black Holes! Supermassive black holes! Black holes gobbling up stars! Supermassive black holes gobbling up stars in colliding galaxies! It's rough out there. Here on Earth, we have survived another solstice, be thankful.

The Mars rover Opportunity is in a bit of a pickle, resting out a mighty dust storm on the surface of the planet. It's been powered down to conserve battery power as it can't recharge with all that dust about. Recently two studies have inched further in detecting signs of life on Mars. Find out more about them by listening to this short, but worthy podcast.

Where are all the aliens? Are they amongst us? Kechil explains Fermi's Paradox, listing all logical possibilities. Are we the dangerous ones who will obliterate life on other planets?

Brent Miszalski, SALT Astronomer with the South African Astronomical Observatory here in Cape Town, has discovered the secrets behind the weird and wonderful shape of the Hourglass Nebula, which sits close to the Southern Cross. Find out why it is the way it is, and what binary star systems have to do with it. Science as it happens!

This past Sunday China launched a rocket which carried three satellites that are now en route to the Moon. Two of these satellites carry instruments co-developed here in Somerset West by Space Advisory Company, part of a complex and exciting science collaboration with the Dutch, Saudis and Chinese. Dr Francois Malan tells us something about this mission and our part in it, as well as the science case for the NCLE instrument on the QueQiao relay satellite, which will explore the very start of the formation of light, way back close to the beginning of the universe after the Big Bang. Golly!

This past Sunday China launched a rocket which carried three satellites that are now en route to the Moon. Two of these satellites carry instruments co-developed here in Somerset West by Space Advisory Company, part of a complex and exciting science collaboration with the Dutch, Saudis and Chinese. Dr Francois Malan tells us something about this mission and our part in it, as well as the science case for the NCLE instrument on the QueQiao relay satellite, which will explore the very start of the formation of light, way back close to the beginning of the universe after the Big Bang. Golly!

The End of the Universe: when and how will the universe end and just what are these numerical poets up to? Why are they so hung up on Dark Energy when nobody knows what it is? Professor Peter Dunsby tries to explain all in less than 5 minutes to a skeptical enquirer.