New perspectives for the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Cagliari, Sardinia, thanks to the likely collaboration between ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) and NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). A team of managers from ASI and JPL visited the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) and the technological laboratories at the headquarters of INAF-OAC (Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari) on the 12th and 13th of January 2016.

FIrst call for proposals for an Early Science Program to be conducted in the first half of 2016 before to start with calls open to the astronomical community at large.

The Italian Minister of Research, University and Education, Stefania Giannini, appointed the new INAF president: Nichi D'Amico will replace Nanni Bignami to lead INAF for the coming few years.

The Sardinia Radio Telescope operations are temporarily halted due to the protest of the Cagliari Observatory staff

Read the text of the plea of the staff of the Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari to the personnel of the Italian Institute for Astrophysics and to the astronomical community.