As part of an international team of astronomers, ASTRON astronomers Jason Hessels and Joeri van Leeuwen have discovered a unique binary star system.

Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date.

RadioNet FP7 has grown, now involving 26 partners from 13 different countries, contributing effort to 18 independent work packages.

Radio telescopes around the world will conduct a nearly continuous 33-hour observation of three quasars today and tomorrow.

Europe's 20 year plan for astronomy was unveiled on 25 November 2008 by the ASTRONET consortium at the Academy of Sciences, Paris, France.

New observations made by radio telescopes have finally revealed thenature of the bizarre object known as "Hanny's voorwerp" (SDSSJ094103.80+344334.2).