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Slow mantle flow built Antarctica gravity low over tens of millions of years
Feb 18, 2026 (SPX)
A new study by researchers at the University of Florida and the Paris Institute of Earth Physics reconstructs how this Antarctic gravity low developed over tens...
AI framework links gravitational waves and radio afterglows
Feb 02, 2026 (SPX)
A collaboration led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, working with Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chic...
Gravitational wave triad puts relativity under intense scrutiny
Feb 02, 2026 (SPX)
GW250114 was detected about a year ago and stands out as the strongest gravitational wave signal recorded so far from the coalescence of two stellar mass black ...
GRACE gravity data reveal deep Earth signal links
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
The research team combined satellite gravity measurements from the GRACE mission with core magnetic field information from the CHAOS-7 geomagnetic field model. ...
Keck backed team advances first graviton detector concept
Jan 19, 2026 (SPX)
That view shifted in 2024 when Igor Pikovski, assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, and collaborators reported work in Nature Communications s...
Laser experiment proposed to probe quantum nature of gravity
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
Schutzhold notes that gravity acts on all forms of energy, including electromagnetic radiation, so light and gravitational waves should influence each other whe...
Quantum fuzzy spacetime may reshape gravity theory
Dec 04, 2025 (SPX)
The researchers highlight that many candidate theories of quantum gravity exist, including string theory, loop quantum gravity, canonical quantum gravity and as...
Gravitational wave detectors complete two year campaign with record signal count
Nov 19, 2025 (SPX)
Improvements in detector technology and sensitivity enabled this increase in the number of observed events. Data from the latest run contributed to major advanc...
Listening for gravitational wave beats in pulsar timing data
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
In 2023, international PTA collaborations such as NANOGrav in the United States and their European counterparts reported strong evidence for nanohertz gravitati...
New tabletop detector to capture gravitational waves in the milli-Hz range
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Gravitational waves - minute ripples in spacetime first predicted by Einstein - have so far been observed only at high and ultra-low frequencies. Ground-based i...
Worlds most powerful centrifuge begins operations in China
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
Designed and built by Zhejiang University, CHIEF includes three centrifuges and 18 in-flight devices distributed across six experimental cabins. Two larger cent...
Record breaking gravitational waves confirm Hawking theory and reveal giant black hole merger
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
"These are waves in spacetime itself-like ripples in water-that travel at the speed of light," explained Jose Maria Ezquiaga of the Niels Bohr Institute, who le...
Gloabl team expands gravitational wave catalogue with 128 new detections
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The detections, gathered between May 2023 and January 2024, mark a turning point in gravitational-wave astronomy. Improved sensitivity in the detectors, now 25 ...
Tiny wave dynamics reveal new fluid control method for space systems
Aug 26, 2025 (SPX)
Likun Zhang, senior scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics and associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, led a research t...
ESA begins building LISA to track gravitational waves from deep space
Jun 21, 2025 (SPX)
Under the newly signed agreement, OHB will finalize LISA's spacecraft design and begin industrial development, working closely with ESA and the scientific LISA ...
Unlocking new insights into space with multi-messenger lensing
Jun 16, 2025 (SPX)
The approach, known as multi-messenger gravitational lensing, uses the ability of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters to bend space and magnify distant cosmic ...
New gravity test using 3D velocities of wide binaries backs modified Newtonian dynamics
May 28, 2025 (SPX)
"The new method overcomes all these limitations. It is a sort of revolutionary and ultimate method for wide binaries whose motions can only be 'snapshot-observe...
Is gravity quantum?
May 21, 2025 (SPX)
The other fundamental forces - electromagnetic, weak, and strong - have all been successfully described, but no complete and consistent quantum theory of gravit...
NASA Studies Uncover New Insights into Interiors of Moon and Vesta
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
The first study, published May 14 in Nature, introduced a sophisticated gravity model of the Moon that captures tiny variations in its gravitational field as it...
Astrophysicist searches for gravitational waves in new way
May 13, 2025 (SPX)
The research, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, could one day help to unlock some of the universe's deepest mysteries, including how gravity works...
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