The 8th LOFAR Data School (LDS) took place from September 16 to 23, 2026 at ASTRON in the Netherlands, bringing together around 40 participants for an intensive week of hands-on training in the generation and analysis of LOFAR science-ready data. The diverse program covered techniques for processing and analyzing both interferometric and beam-formed observations across [...]
Astronomers have captured an exceptionally detailed view of a massive binary star system while it is still forming. By monitoring two young massive stars over nearly eight years with ALMA, and combining the observations with data from the VLA, JWST and VLT, the team reconstructed the system’s three-dimensional orbital motion, gas disks and jets. The [...]
An international team has identified the first convincing example of a microblazar in the Milky Way, a black-hole binary system whose powerful jet is directed almost towards Earth. The system, located about 12,000 light-years away, consists of a black hole orbiting a massive star every 11.38 days. Material falling towards the black hole produces powerful [...]
Scientists using the IRAM 30-m Telescope have taken a closer look at 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever identified passing through our Solar System. Their observations provide a rare opportunity to study the composition of material that formed around another star. By observing the gases surrounding 3I/ATLAS, the team was able to identify several molecules [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a series of articles exploring the science, facilities and wider importance of radio astronomy, as well as the growing challenges posed by radio-frequency interference and the rapidly changing space environment. The series covers a broad range of topics, including radio galaxies and black holes, VLBI and geodesy, galaxy [...]
An international team has discovered an exceptionally long-lasting radio outburst from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the nearby galaxy SDSS J110546.07+145202.4, located about 1.8 billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy has remained exceptionally bright at radio wavelengths for more than eight years, with its radio emission increasing by more than a factor [...]
The 54th edition of the Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC) was hosted in Oxford from the 17th-21st August to great success. This year’s edition was attended by 40 early career researchers (ECRs), representing institutes from 12 countries, with participants from at least 20 countries represented. YERAC is a unique conference in the landscape of ECR meetings, [...]
Around 70 participants from across Europe and beyond have gathered in Noto, Sicily, for the XI European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS 2026), taking place from 7 to 11 September and hosted by the Institute of Radio Astronomy, part of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). The school is being held at the Consorzio Universitario [...]
The SKA Observatory has released Advancing Astrophysics II, a new collection showcasing the broad range of science that will be enabled by the SKA telescopes. The anthology brings together 221 peer-reviewed papers from more than 1,500 scientists in 51 countries, covering topics from the Sun, planets and star formation to galaxies, cosmology and the extreme [...]
ALMA has captured a vast stream of gas feeding the young triple-star system GW Orionis, located about 1,300 light-years away. Stretching roughly 12,000 astronomical units (0.2 light-years), the streamer connects the surrounding molecular cloud with the system’s unusual, misaligned planet-forming rings. The observations provide strong evidence that late infall of material from a star’s natal [...]