It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars.

It is an understatement to say that designing and building a world-class scientific instrument comes with its challenges.

The world’s biggest connected radio telescope will expand into Latvia.

On 27 November, Laura Driessen received the annual Graduation Prize for Astronomy at the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW) in Haarlem.

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the unresolved mysteries in the Universe.

Astronomers in Canada have received an award of $10 million to build a radio astronomy data centre.

On Sunday 8 October 2017, ASTRON & JIVE opened their doors to several hundred visitors during the Weekend of Science.

An international team of astronomers led by Francesco de Gasperin (Leiden University, the Netherlands) has witnessed an unexpected phenomenon in a merger of a two clusters of galaxies.

Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet.

ASTRON newest member Innovation Cluster Drachten. ASTRON contributes to groundbreaking technologies.

The Pierre Auger Collaboration reports observational evidence demonstrating that high energy cosmic rays come from much further away than from our own Galaxy.

The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS), the new, high-speed, wide-field radio camera for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, has for the first time detected a bright Fast Radio Burst on 31 August 2017.