The International Space University is proud to announce that the 31st annual Space Studies Program (SSP) session will convene in the Netherlands durin...

Leiden scientists will be working on the development of a camera for the European Extremely Large Telescope that is currently under construction. On 2...

An international team of astronomers that includes researchers from Leiden has discovered the most distant galaxy yet. The galaxy, called EGS8p7, is 1...

An international team of astronomers, including Professor Koen Kuijken, has published a series of online articles presenting the first results of a ma...

Astronomers Professor Christoph Keller and Dr Frans Snik will be developing a commercial module for measuring fine particulates. They have been awarde...

Universe in a Box has been recognised for its educational value by Scientix — the European Network of Science Education. Universe in a Box is the low-...

Universe Awareness is one of fifteen projects chosen by WISE for providing compelling and innovative solutions to today’s most pressing challenges in ...

Galaxies are often found in clusters, which contain many “red and dead” members that stopped forming stars in the distant past. Now, an international ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surroun...

Staring into the clouds hoping for a glimpse of the sun, cheering in encouragement, video recordings: there was no shortage of things to do at the Lei...

Chemist Alexander Kros and astronomer Joop Schaye are two of the four Leiden researchers who have been awarded a Vici as part of NWO's Innovation Rese...

Astronomers from the Leiden Observatory and from the University of Rochester (in the US) have discovered that the planetary ring system that covered t...

The Leiden Observatory is starting a crowdfunding campaign to raise enough money to construct a new telescope.

At the New Year’s reception of the Faculty of Science on 6 January, it was announced that Annelien Zweemer, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, ...

Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens has been awarded a Spinoza prize, the highest scientific prize in the Netherlands. Tielens is Professor in the Physic...