Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 SKACH Awards, nominated by their peers for the outstanding contributions of the Swiss community to the international Square Kilometre Array effort. The 2025 SKACH Awards were presented during this year’s SKA Days hosted by ZHAW in Winterthur. They recognize excellence in research, development, […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, continues. The first series is in French, and Episode 4 deals with the theme of “Space debris”. L’épisode 4 est désormais disponible ! Depuis les années 1950, des milliers de satellites ont été lancés dans notre ciel, et nombre d’entre eux y restent longtemps […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, continues. The first series is in French, and Episode 3 deals with the theme of “Supermassive black holes”. L’épisode 3 est désormais disponible ! Que sont exactement les trous noirs supermassifs et pourquoi sont-ils importants ? Mark et Alexandra discutent de ces objets extraordinaires […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, continues. The first series is in French, and Episode 2 deals with the theme of “Extraterrestrials and Exoplanets”. Notre nouveau podcast est désormais disponible ! Y a-t-il de la vie au-delà de notre planète et où la cherche-t-on ? Mark et Alexandra s’entretiennent avec […]

Our new podcast series, Radio Cosmos, has begun. The first series is in French, and Episode 1 deals with the theme of “Listening to the Universe”. Notre nouveau podcast est désormais disponible ! Comment la radioastronomie transforme-t-elle notre compréhension du cosmos, depuis le « bruit des étoiles » capté par […]

For millennia humans have been inspired by the stars but this may soon be a thing of the past due to a significant increase in the numbers of satellites, potentially limiting our view of the night sky. EPFL scientists are part of a global initiative to better protect Earth’s Dark […]

As the SKACH Consortium meets for its Spring Meeting at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, we deep dive into the work that ZHAW School of Engineering researchers are contributing globally to the Square Kilometer Array. Currently under construction, by the end of the decade there will be hundreds of […]

Claude Nicollier, who took part in four space missions, is worried by today’s dangerous geopolitics but believes the wonderful global collaborations in astrophysics and astronomy, such as the SKAO, show the very brightest side of humanity. As a boy Claude Nicollier skied and hiked in the mountains surrounding Les Diablerets, […]

With its secretariat hosted at EPFL, the Square Kilometer Array Switzerland (SKACH) consortium is celebrating two years’ membership of a global project to develop the largest scientific facility ever built by humankind. In January 2022 Switzerland officially joined a great adventure – the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), an international […]

Scientists with the Square Kilometer Array Switzerland (SKACH) consortium will use the largest ever allocation of node hours on Europe’s LUMI-G supercomputer to conduct a simulation looking at the role of turbulence and gravity in the universe.  Scientists working with the Swiss arm of the international Square Kilometer Array Observatory […]