Astronomer Joeri van Leeuwen of ASTRON receives a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros to hunt for the source of gravitational waves.

On 30 January 2018, 40 astronomers and engineers participated in the second SKA Netherlands Roadmap face-to-face meeting, held at ASTRON in Dwingeloo.

The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) and the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) announce the availability of a limited number of grants for their 2018 Summer Research Programme.

Aims to uncover Fast Radio Bursts using gaming technology

An international team of astronomers has used two of the world's largest radio telescopes to show that a mysterious source of radio bursts is in an astonishingly extreme and unusual environment.

The Australian ambassador, His Excellency Dr Brett Mason, visited ASTRON on Tuesday 19 December 2017.

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.