SKAO unveils new brand
The newly born SKA Observatory (SKAO) has unveiled its brand following approval by the SKAO Council at its second meeting today.
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Biggest Ever SKA Science Meeting Kicks Off With 950 Participants
The 2021 SKA Science Meeting “A precursor view of the SKA sky” is under way with more than 950 people taking part from across the SKA community.
SKAO Publishes Construction Proposal And Delivery Plan For The SKA Telescopes
Following the first meeting of its Council earlier this month, SKAO has published its Construction Proposal for the SKA telescopes as well as its Observatory Establishment and Delivery Plan.
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The latest issue of the SKA magazine is out now!
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Register now for the SKA science meeting 15-19 March 2021!
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science - Meet Dr Anna Bonaldi
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Our new brochure introducing the SKA Observatory is available to read!
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Team SKA - Meet supercomputing expert Prof. Tao An
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Read Issue #6 of Contact, the SKA magazine, out now!
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Team SKA - Meet astronomer Prof. Kristine Spekkens
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Issue #5 of Contact is out now!
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Take a look at the SKAO sustainability FAQs
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Read issue #4 of Contact, the SKA magazine!
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Team SKA - Meet mechanical engineer Nathaneal Morgan
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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View the Shared Sky indigenous astronomy art exhibition online
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Read Issue 03 of Contact, the SKA magazine!
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Team SKA - Meet operations scientist Dr Shari Breen
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Team SKA - Meet engineer Jonas Flygare
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Read Issue 02 of Contact, the SKA magazine!
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Team SKA - Meet IT specialist Kesseven Mooneyan
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Team SKA - Meet radio astronomer Prof. Anna Scaife
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Read the first issue of Contact, the new SKA magazine!
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Towards the SKA Observatory
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Team SKA - Meet particle physicist Dr Conor Fitzpatrick
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Team SKA - Meet cosmologist Dr Alkistis Pourtsidou
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International Day of Women in Engineering - Meet engineer Shagita Gounden
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Team SKA - Meet project scientist Dr Rosie Bolton
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Notes from the latest Board Meeting published
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Download the SKA 2019 Calendar!
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Latest issue of the SKAO Bulletin now available
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Latest issue of the SKAO eNews now available
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Outcomes Of The 28th SKA Board Meeting
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Team SKA - Meet project manager Rebecca Wheadon
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Team SKA - Meet construction planner Tracy Cheetham
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Check out the new SKA info sheets
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Team SKA - Meet astrophysicist Prof. Yashwant Gupta
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Outcomes Of The 27th SKA Board Meeting
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Team SKA - Meet software engineer Snehal Valame
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Browse the SKA Prospectus
- Technology, international bonds, and inspiration: why astronomy matters in times of crisis
- SKA: Major science project across three continents keeps running during the pandemic
- Southern Africa's Stargazers
- Big Bang & India: All you need to know about 7 mega-science projects on show in Delhi
- Simulating SKA Telescope’s Massive Dataflow using the Summit Supercomputer
- Giant radio telescope array prepares to begin construction in Australia and South Africa - Science
- Designing the SKA Supercomputer Platform - The Next Platform
- World's largest telescope closer to reality as designs completed for the SKA - ZDNet
- Construction on massive SKA radio telescope to start next year - ABC (Australia)
- Australia Designs Local Infrastructure for World's Largest Telescope - Space Daily (Australia)
- Super-sensitive telescope gets global governing body - Nature
- MeerKAT Award for UCT Chair of Astronomy - Uni. of Cape Town (South Africa)
- The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union to be hosted on African soil for the first time in 2024 - AlphaGalileo (UK)
- The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy - Wired (USA)
- Billion-dollar telescopes could end up beyond the reach of US astronomers - Nature (USA)
- There are two super-telescopes in which Portugal participates - Publico (Portugal)
- Ambitious new Innovation Partnerships with African countries - The Asian Independent (UK)
- Australia and India collaborate on world's largest telescope project - SBS (Australia)
- ‘The roots of modern astronomy were laid in India’ - Sakal Times (India)
- China Built the World’s Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists - Wired (USA)
- How does a radio telescope work? - Cosmos Magazine (USA)
- Solving the challenges of active space debris - SciTech Europa (Europe)
- China Built the World’s Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists - Wired (USA)
- SKA radio telescope: a very terrestrial project to study the universe - EFE Futuro (Spain)
- SKA telescope: France joins the SKA organization - Futura Sciences (Spain)
- Telescope Manager consortium concluded its work on the architectural design of a fundamental part of the software for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope - EuropaWire (Europe)
- Reaching for stars: India is betting in mega, multi-country science projects - EconomicTimes (India)
- The Square Kilometre Array: One massive radio telescope - CNET (video)
- A New Way To Measure The Speed Of Our Galaxy Through The Cosmos - Forbes (USA)
- Granada, in the elite of science - GranadaHoy (Granada)
- Like a car aerial: tuning in from the quietest place on the planet - The Age (Australia)
- IceCube blazar neutrino detection: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR - ICRAR (Australia)
- Neutrino observation points to one source of high-energy cosmic rays - NSF (USA)
- 60-Second Astro News: Must-See Images of the Week: MeerKAT Unveils Clearest View of Galactic Center - Sky & Telescope (USA)
- MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way - SKA SA (South Africa)
- Launch of the MeerKAT Telescope - eNCA (South Africa)
- Radio telescopes show theory of gravity holds in extreme situations - Yahoo! (USA)
- Outback Astronomy, The Sky at Night - BBC (UK)
- BLUEDOT BRINGS A UNIVERSE OF CULTURE TO JODRELL BANK IN LESS THAN A MONTH - Vents Magazine (UK)
- CERN's Maria Girone: "We explain the magic!" - Top500 (USA)
- SADC Ministers responsible for Education and Training and Science Technology and Innovation Ministerial Policy Dialogue - SADC (South Africa)
- The 6 Best Places to Stargaze in Australia - National Geographic (USA)
- Astronomers are campaigning for Swiss participation in an intercontinental radio telescope - NZZ (Switzerland)
- Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star - About Manchester (UK)
- Next-gen optical disk set to take stock of power hungry data centres - PACE Today (Australia)
- Swedish Receiver to Capture Cosmic Waves in the World’s Largest Radio Telescope - STRN (USA)
- New radio telescope in South Africa will study galaxy formation - Science (USA)
- SKA Observatory: Spain is already in its international organization - Efe : Futuro (Spain)
- Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World’s Speediest Supercomputer - NY Times (USA)
- Dark Inflation Opens Up a Gravitational Window Onto the First Moments After the Big Bang - AstroWatch (USA)
- A New Experiment to Understand Dark Matter - SpaceRef (USA)
- ASTRON takes first step to Science Data Center - Astron (The Netherlands)
- Why Australia's commercial space industry remains earthbound - CapitalBay (Australia)
- Drawing constellations in the global space sector | Sarah Pearce - CSIROscope (Australia)
- Australia becomes the second country to initial the SKA Observatory Convention in Rome - SKA Organisation (UK)
- Is cultural knowledge more important than language skills? BBC (UK)
- Pawsey to collaborate with Europe's supercomputing infrastructure group PRACE - CIO (Australia)
- Curiosity is every engineer’s best asset – here’s why - CreateDigital (UK)
- China's CETC signs agreement to research at Britain's Jodrell Bank radio telescope - GlobalTimes (China)
- Dark inflation opens up a gravitational window onto the first moments after the Big Bang - ScienceDaily (USA)
- How open source supports CERN's Large Hadron Collider - TechWorld (Australia)
- ICRAR researcher named in ABC’s Top 5 scientists for 2018 - ICRAR (Australia)
- The Drent Astron goes on an adventure in Australia - DVLN (The Netherlands)
- China sets up new laboratory for FAST telescope - China.Org (China)
- Scientists to use the Square Kilometre Array to gain information - SABC Digital News (South Africa)
- How the world is coming together to build a time machine | Mathieu Isidro | - TEDx (UK)
- How the SKA Telescope Is Boosting South Africa's Knowledge Economy - AllAfrica (South Africa)
- It could be you: National Lottery hands £16m to England's Jodrell Bank - The Register (UK)
- Africa's science infrastructure gap - ABC (Australia)
- Rival giant telescopes join forces to seek U.S. funding - ScienceMag (USA)
- SKA: The new eye of the cosmos - Malaga Hoy (Spain)
- The quantum internet is already being built - Cosmos Magazine (USA)
- This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made - Space.com (USA)
- Major upgrade helps prepare for world's largest telescope - Dept of Industry, Innovation and Science (Australia)
- SKA 'time machine' will be able to detect formation of first stars, galaxies - Horizon Magazine (Belgium)
- Irreproducible astronomy - Physics Today (USA)
- Exploring the hidden nuclei of galaxies - Chalmers (Sweden)
- STFC Impact Report - STFC (UK)
- Outback radio telescope listens in on interstellar visitor - SciMex (Australia)
- Astronomers Have Detected the Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Seen. Still No Idea What’s Causing Them - Before It's News (USA)
- Scientists keen to use MeerKAT data deluge - BusinessDay (South Africa)
- Professor Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018 - Cambridge University (UK)
- Scientists have detected a signal from the earliest stars - Tech Explorist (USA)
- A massive radio telescope for seeing the invisible - Tech Explorist (USA)
- All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years - Astronomy (USA)
- From digital simulation to the first image - La Recherche (France)
- Steve, a Famous Northern Light, Stays Mysterious (and Keeps His Name) - The New York Times (USA)
- A Square Kilometre of Science - ScienceNode (USA)
- Scientists uncover a signal sent out by the first stars in the universe - Yahoo! (USA)
- INAF is the leader of large global astronomical infrastructures - Meteoweb (Italy)
- Inauguration of European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development - Eurekalert (USA)
- Interview: Nasa’s Jim Adams on aliens, Mars, the SKA and more - TechCentral (South Africa)
- Government | Vice Minister Huang Wei Meets with Phillip Diamond, Director General of the Organization of the Sky-Radial Array Telescope - MOST (China)
- South African minister Naledi Pandor as Honorary Professor to Leiden - Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)
- Minister Naledi Pandor: Debate on State of the Nation Address - Public Now (USA)
- Cyril Ramaphosa To Set Up Digital Commission, Allocate Spectrum - AFK Insider (South Africa)
- NRAO Contracts for Specialized Integrated Circuit for New Radio Telescope - Press Release Point (USA)
- UWA's future leaders awarded Westpac scholarships - Uni. of Western Australia (Australia)
- The Next Generation of Radio Astronomy - University Observer (Ireland)
- HOMER Pro: Helping to Build the World’s Largest Radio Telescope - Microgrid (USA)
- Deluge of astronomical data will soon hit South Africa - Nature (USA)
- A quantum leap in precision - Hanser Konstrucktion (Germany)
- Manufacturing a radio telescope - The first SKA prototype dish
- The universe's oldest sounds will soon be recorded by the world's largest radio telescope array - International Business Times (UK)
- South Africa’s new signal “dead-zone” - FarmingPortal (South Africa)
- Guizhou applies to set up SKA Asian center - ChinaDaily (China)
- Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - BBC News (UK)
- UK puts forward Jodrell Bank Observatory as 2019 World Heritage nomination - Gov.uk (UK)
- UK’s Jisc Delivers World’s First 400G National Research and Education Network with Ciena - Ciena.com (UK)
- 'Super blue blood Moon' seen around the world - BBC News (UK)
- Bluedot Festival announce line-up - The Mancunion (UK)
- Making the Most Detailed Radio Map of the Milky Way - NAOJ (Japan)
- Science Diplomacy: A Pragmatic Perspective from the Inside - Science & Diplomacy (USA)
- The Rise of Astro Tourism in Southern Africa - Freedom and Safety (USA)
- Ask Ethan: What Does The Future Of Science Look Like? - Forbes (USA)
- The Karoo: Small Towns, New Future - Business Media Mags (South Africa)
- What Happens If China Makes First Contact? - The Atlantic (USA)
- Astronomers Trace Fast Radio Bursts to Extreme Cosmic Neighborhood - Wired (USA)
- Visible and Infrared Visualization of the Orion Nebula - HubbleSite (USA)
- We want to promote Africa as a science-intent continent— Naledi Pandor - Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
- How environment curbs may impede siting of SKA dishes - BusinessDay (South Africa)
- University of Toronto Astronomers Receive $23M in Funding - Photonics Media (USA)
- Industrial Strategy: Building a Britain fit for the future - UK Government (UK)
- Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and the Australian Outback - IEEE Spectrum (USA)
- A Mysterious Galactic Glow Hints at Hidden Pulsars - Wired (USA)
- What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off? - Wired (USA)
- German implication in FAST telescope - ZDF Public (Germany)
- Australian scientists capture Milky Way as it eats another galaxy - The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
- Fly though the Universe with the GAMA survey - Australia's Science Channel (Australia)
- French radio telescope to peer into the universe’s ‘dark age’
- Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe - CSIROscope (Australia)
- How scientists' search for aliens is getting more advanced than ever - SYFY Wire (USA)
- Chancellor announces £4m for historic Jodrell Bank - University of Manchester (UK)
- MeerKAT ready to go live by March - IT Web (South Africa)
- Getting in sync with the SKA - Australia's Science Channel (Australia)
- SC17 Keynote – HPC Powers SKA Efforts to Peer Deep into the Cosmos - HPCWire (USA)
- Major milestone for key radio-astronomy project - Curtin University (Australia)
- ESnet upgrades transatlantic submarine network links - LightWave (USA)
- SKA site doubles as environmental observatory - Engineering News (South Africa)
- South Africa: Cabinet Welcomes SKA Achievements - AllAfrica (South Africa)
- Square Kilometre Array Project Takes Center Stage at SC17 - Top500 (USA)
- 100 Women: Seven trailblazing women in science - BBC News (UK)
- Q&A: A force behind new dynamics in South African science - SciDev (South Africa)
- World super "eye" to listen to the universe "heartbeat" - Anhui News (China)
- India, South Africa tracing evolution of galaxies - The Economic Times (India)
- DDN Powers Radio Astronomy at Pawsey Centre in Australia - Inside HPC (USA)
- What’s the Difference Between Data Science and Statistics? - Priceonomics (USA)
- Looking ahead to the Square Kilometer Array - Astronomy (USA)
- Is there anybody out there? - The Planetary Society (US)
- The Square Kilometer Array will be the largest scientific infrastructure ever built - Al Dia Andalucia (Spain)
- After the alert: radio ‘eyes’ hunt the source of the gravitational waves - The Conversation (UK)
- Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars’ Variability - Sky & Telescope (USA)
- Big Data Shines New Light on the Big Bang - SAP (USA)
- Jodrell Bank bids for Unesco World Heritage status - BBC News (UK)
- ASSAf awards Fanaroff a gold medal - Engineering News (South Africa)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Have Taken Centre Stage – Here’s Why - Technology Networks (USA)
- China Focus: FAST telescope finds pulsars during trial operation - XinhuaNet (China)
- $23 Million in New Funding for Dunlap Institute Astronomers - Dunlap Institute (Canada)
- Indian Science Minister visits South African SKA site - Twitter
- FAST telescope finds pulsars during trial operation - XinhuaNet (China)
- NSF-funded LIGO pioneers named 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates - National Science Foundation (USA)
- How the Square Kilometre Array will force computing forward - HP Enterprise (USA)
- ALMA Finds Hints of Early Black-Hole Growth - AAS Nova (USA)
- Statement on impact of Hurricane Maria on Arecibo Observatory - National Science Foundation (USA)
- It's exciting that Australia is getting a space agency. But what will it do? - The Guardian (United Kingdom)
- From the outback to outer space: A brief history of Australia's space program - The Canberra Times (Australia)
- Where are we at? The Square Kilometre Array - Particle/SciTech (Australia)
- The Colossal Telescope Offering the Most Detailed Pictures of the Universe - World Economic Forum (Switzerland)
- Without science, we risk making decisions in the dark - World Economic Forum (Switzerland)
- Fast Radio Bursts May Be Firing Off Every Second - Space Fellowship (USA)
- Interference kills the radio star finder - CSIROscope (Australia)
- Clean energy powers high tech astronomy in world-first collaboration with CSIRO - ABC (Australia)
- Expect the unexpected from the big-data boom in radio astronomy - Cosmos (USA)
- FAST radio telescope chief scientist Nan Rendong died at the age of 72 years old - Top News
- After Cassini: 10 future space missions to look forward to - ScienceFocus (UK)
- Listening for the universe to chime in - The Globe and Mail (USA)
- Dr. Space Junk Unearths the Cultural Landscape of the Cosmos - The New Yorker (USA)
- Telescopes Pick up Strange Radio Signals Three Billion Years Old - The Wire (India)
- Curtin University Vice-Chancellor echoes calls for an Australian space agency - Community News (Australia)
- Ghana’s first radio telescope is the start of a continent-wide project to capture the complete African sky - Quartz (Africa)
- The future of astronomy in Australia - Nature (USA)
- The supertelescope that will seek extraterrestrial life - Expresso (Portugal)
- Can Radio Telescopes Find Axions? - AAS Nova (USA)
- Aveiro helps to create the world's largest radio telescope - DN (Portugal)
- NZ puts $380k toward big data project involving world's largest radio telescope - NZHerald (New Zealand)
- Drive to connect Africa's scientists - IOL (South Africa)
- South Africa: Ghana and South Africa Celebrate First Success of African Network of Telescopes - allAfrica (South Africa)
- Ghana inaugurates first SKA-linked African radio telescope outside South Africa - SABC news (South Africa)
- From Hakås to the outer space (Swedish language) - SVT (Sweden)
- Philip Diamond from SKA Project to Keynote SC17 - Inside HPC (USA)
- 70 years of Independence: India poised to join league of global scientific leaders - Tech2 (India)
- SKA: World's biggest radio telescope prepares for crucial new phase - Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK)
- Voices in Italian Ska Organisation. Part Three: Andrea Cremonini - Globo Channel (Italy)
- Ghana, South Africa celebrate first success of African network of telescopes - Engineering News (South Africa)
- 2017 Jansky Lectureship Awarded to South African Astronomer Bernie Fanaroff - NewsWise (USA)
- With an eye on future funding, Square Kilometre Array makes fresh pitch in Europe - Science|Business (Belgium)
- Hope shimmer at the radio - Physick Journal (Germany)
- The Future Of Astronomy: Thousands Of Radio Telescopes That Can See Beyond The Stars - Forbes (USA)
- African scientists are changing the world, but it's going unnoticed - World Economic Forum
- Australia’s biggest battery system delivered to WA astronomy hub - One Step Off The Grid (Australia)
- Breakthrough Initiatives and Jodrell Bank Observatory Launch New Collaboration in Search for Intelligent Life beyond Earth - Breakthrough Initiatives (USA)
- Come 2018, upgraded GMRT will open new windows on the universe - The Indian Express (India)
- Radiotélescope: les sons racontent l’histoire du monde - RTS (Switzerland)
- Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array - Nature (UK)
- Why data-driven science is more than just a buzzword - The Conversation (UK)
- Nasa and ESA want to look for life on Europe, a moon of Jupiter, with a lander - Futura Sciences (France)
- Work starts on world’s largest telescope project - InsiderMedia (UK)
- Where would we be today without WiFi? - Voxy (New Zealand)
- Using Radio to Detect the Gravitational Waves of Merging Black Holes - Physics Central (USA)
- Big data opening R&D opportunities in Africa - SciDev (South Africa)
- Inside the Square Kilometre Array - ABC (Australia)
- Pioneering research and data management in Africa: a dual first - MRC (South Africa)
- Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy - ICRAR (Australia)
- Government gives green light for shale gas fracking in Karoo - News24 (South Africa)
- Australia’s science vision centres on collaboration - Science Meets Business (Australia)
- Telescope Eyeing Universe's First Stars Gets (Another) Big Boost - Space.com (USA)
- SA’s astronomy centres to become one constellation - BusinessDay (South Africa)
- One woman’s role in designing the world’s largest radio telescope - PublicNow (Australia)
- The Square Kilometre Array: going to infinity and beyond - Financial Review (Australia)
- SKA SA, Agri SA partner to benefit Karoo communities - Engineering News (South Africa)
- A beacon in the bush becomes an astronomy powerhouse - Nature Index 2016 Collaborations
- Interview with Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, coordinator of the SKA-Spain activities (Facebook, in Spanish)
- SKA stakeholders prepare for visit - The New Age (South Africa)
- Projet SKA : le Centre de recherches opérationnel - Newsmada (Magadascar, in French)
