Across Nigeria, rapid urbanisation and population growth have led to the encroachment on and destruction of critical ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to stare at trees and count how many pods they have. At every stop, he records ...

Despite its year-round sun, rich history and gourmet restaurants, Djerba remains mysteriously absent from UK tourists’ radars ...

Satellite images help identify large areas of pollution caused ... These giant storms sweep off West Africa and occasionally reach Florida and the Caribbean. By the time the dust reaches Florida, it ...

Soon, costly infrastructure may not be the only route to mobile access in South Africa’s (SA’s) most disconnected rural areas. A trial mobile call triumph this week successfully used satellite tech to ...

Mobile operators and smartphone makers are racing to deploy satellite services to close gaps in network coverage. The call in Vryburg, in the North West province of South Africa, was part of a ...

Scientists in China have transmitted encrypted images a record 12,900 kilometers, paving the way for quantum messaging ...

MTN South Africa and low-earth ... trial of one of the first satellite-to-mobile device phone calls in South Africa. The phone call, made in Vryburg, North West, allowed the companies to test ...

Mobile operator MTN SA and Lynk Global yesterday successfully completed a technical trial of what they describe as “Africa’s first satellite ... call in the North West’s Vryburg, an ...

Hydroacoustic signals captured by the world's international nuclear monitoring system suggest an underwater landslide may ...