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.

Astronomers have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with LOFAR in the Netherlands by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

The timescales over which galaxies form and evolve are outside the reach of human life. Thus, astronomers need to use indirect methods to derive the history of galaxies.

New antenna station further increases sensitivity of the world's largest radio telescope.

SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, today signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing.

What are the major achievements and results of low frequency radio telescopes far? And what will be their science impact?

Over 300 engineers and scientists from 17 countries participate in the 2017 SKA Engineering Meeting, which takes place from 12 – 16 June in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.