Astronomers Find Second-Generation Star in Pictor II
PicII-503, a primordial star located in the >10-billion-year-old ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Pictor II, appears to preserve the chemical…
Kindiki pushes China exports drive to cut Kenya’s Sh500bn trade deficit
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki speaking at the High-Level Kenya-China Business Forum in Nairobi on March 23, 2026/ DPCS…
VLT Zooms in on Nearby Triangulum Galaxy
A new close-up of the Triangulum galaxy, captured with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), traces the tangled gas…
Active employers on NSSF
The National Social Security Fund has witnessed a notable shift in the number of active contributing employers over…
Safaricom to mask sender’s mobile number on M-Pesa to curb fraud, nuisance
Safaricom CEO, Peter Ndegwa/HANDOUT Safaricom has introduced a data minimisation feature on its mobile money platform, M-Pesa, to…
Supergiant Star Makes Rare Leap to Hotter Phase, Astronomers Say
Long-term observations of WOH G64 — once considered the most extreme red supergiant star in its galaxy —…
Astronomers spot super-Earth circling a star 83 light-years away
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a new exoplanet discovered in observations from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…
Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
Oscars: ‘Voice of Hind Rajab’ star to miss ceremony due to travel ban
“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” a heartbreaking retelling of the efforts to save a 6-year-old Palestinian girl amid…
Astronomers Witness Aftermath of Catastrophic Planetary Collision
An unusual flickering of a young F-type star called Gaia20ehk and an expanding cloud of dust around it…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
Safaricom’s mobile money giant, M-Pesa hits 40 million users on 19th birthday
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa [holding a phone] Safaricom’s mobile money platform M-Pesa has reached 40 million monthly active…