SKA Global Headquarters, 10 May 2018 – The SKA Organisation was pleased to welcome John Halligan TD, Irish Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, and representatives from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) during their visit to Jodrell Bank … Read more

SKAO Global Headquarters, Friday 27 April 2018 – The SKA Organisation is pleased to announce the launch of a new platform highlighting the SKA’s key engineering milestones. The interactive infographic will showcase the ongoing Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), which assess the readiness levels … Read more

Perth, Western Australia, Tuesday 24 April 2018 – A major expansion of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), one of four SKA precursor telescopes, has been completed, doubling the number of antenna stations at the remote site in Western Australia. The … Read more

  Brussels, Wednesday 18 April 2018 – The Square Kilometre Array’s Indigenous Astronomy Art Exhibition, Shared Sky, opened in Brussels on Monday for its first major exhibition of 2018. The exhibition is on display at the European Commission Headquarters under … Read more

Cape Town, Friday 6 April 2018 – An article published today in The Astrophysical Journal presents the study of a magnetar – a star that is one of the most magnetic objects known in the universe – that awoke in 2017 … Read more

Perth, Western Australia, Thursday 1 Mars – In a paper published in the journal Nature yesterday, a team of US astronomers announced the detection of a signal from the first stars to have emerged in the Universe, about 180 million years … Read more

Shijiazhuang, China, Tuesday 6 February – The first fully assembled SKA dish was unveiled today at a ceremony in Shijiazhuang, China, by the Vice Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, in the presence of representatives from the … Read more