Astronomers have found evidence for a faded electron cloud “coming back to life”, much like the mythical phoenix, after two galaxy clusters collided.

In a study published today, a team of scientists in the Netherlands and Australia discovered powerful jets blasting out of a double star system known as PSR J1023+0038.

The NWO has awarded a Veni fellowship to Anne Archibald. The funding allows Anne to conduct independent research and develop her ideas for a period of three years.

Astronomers and astroparticle physicists today are celebrating a €15 million EU funding boost for European telescopes with the launch of the ASTERICS project.

The Members of the SKA Organisation decided that negotiations should start with the UK government to locate the permanent headquarters of the SKA project in the UK.

It was discovered that cosmic rays provide suitable probes to measure electric fields within thunderclouds. This surprising finding is published in Physical Review Letters on April 22nd.

A team of scientists has combined high-resolution images from the ALMA telescopes with a new scheme for undoing the distorting effects of a powerful gravitational lens.

After a construction phase of more than two years, the ASTRON building was officially opened on Monday, March 16 by State Secretary Sander Dekker.

All the solar eclipse radio photos that are made with the LOFAR telescope.

Last week the SKA Board of Directors unanimously agreed to move the world’s largest radio telescope forward to its final pre-construction phase.

An international team of astronomers used the giant radio telescope LOFAR to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.

Scientists measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star — just before it disappeared.