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Unlocking gravity's secrets at the smallest scales
Aug 04, 2022 (SPX)
While gravity, the mutual attraction that brings objects with mass together, may be the most familiar, there is still much to learn about its fundamental nature...
ETH researchers remeasure gravitational constant
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
The gravitational constant G determines the strength of gravity - the force that makes apples fall to the ground or pulls the Earth in its orbit around the sun....
Microgravity Science Glovebox mars 20 years of Zero G research
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
The box is the Microgravity Science Glovebox, or MSG, which celebrated its 20th anniversary aboard the space station July 8. Managed by NASA's Marshall Space Fl...
Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational waves
Jun 08, 2022 (SPX)
Black holes are generally thought to swallow all forms of matter and energy surrounding them. It has long been known, however, that they can also shed some of t...
New spin on galaxy rotation saves controversial gravity theory
May 24, 2022 (SPX)
Headed by Dr Indranil Banik of the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews, the study revealed a high predicted rotation speed of gas in a dwarf galaxy co...
Airbus to further develop LISA gravitational wave observatory mission
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
Gravitational waves were first postulated by Albert Einstein. They are distortions in space-time, created when for example supermassive black holes - billions o...
LISA mission moves to final design phase
May 05, 2022 (ESA)
With LISA, ESA aims to fly the first space-based observatory dedicated to studying gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the ...
AstroAccess announces second Zero-G Parabolic Flight for 2022
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
This follows the historic inaugural AstroAccess flight of twelve individuals in October 2021. AstroAccess Flight 2 will take place on November 19, 2022, in Fort...
Ten new gravitational waves found in LIGO-Virgo's O3a data
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
But outliers were hiding in the data. Expanding the search, an international group of astrophysicists re-examined the data and found 10 additional black hole me...
The hunt for the gravitational wave background
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
Now, an international team of scientists has shown that the high-energy light collected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can also be used in the search...
NASA's Fermi hunts for gravitational waves from monster black holes
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
Fermi detects gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. An international team of scientists examined over a decade of Fermi data collected from pulsars, rap...
AstroAccess announces second Zero-G parabolic flight for 2022
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
During the parabolic flight, the Ambassadors experience weightlessness and investigate microgravity accessibility solutions to make space travel accessible to e...
Moon's orbit proposed as a gravitational wave detector
Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)
Gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein at the start of the 20th century and detected for the first time in 2015, are the new messengers of the most v...
Gravitational wave mirror experiments can evolve into quantum entities
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
An ideal system is a highly reflecting mirror whose motion is sensed by monochromatic light, which is photoelectrically detected with high quantum efficiency. A...
New research discovers link between disparate approaches to quantum gravity
Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)
Finding a theory of quantum gravity - which would combine both quantum mechanical and gravitational effects - is one of the great unsolved problems of theoretic...
NIST researchers link cutting-edge gravity research to safer operation of construction cranes
Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)
The equation that Schlamminger derived provides guidance about how to minimize or quickly dampen the amount by which the wire twists back and forth. If the amou...
Orbital Assembly raises over $1 Million for artificial gravity technology development
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
The company raised the funds on the Netcapital (Reg CF) crowdfunding site after its first successful funding round in 2021. This round is scheduled to close at ...
Future gravitational wave detector in space could uncover secrets of the Universe
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
Professor Thomas Sotiriou from the University of Nottingham's Centre of Gravity and Andrea Maselli, researcher at GSSI and INFN associate, together with researc...
Chinese scientists build 'Artificial Moon' to conduct experiments in low gravity
Jan 18, 2022 (Sputnik)
Chinese scientists have built an artificial moon that will make it possible to conduct experiments in low gravity. According to the researchers, their creation ...
International collaboration offers new evidence of a gravitational wave background
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
These light-year-scale ripples, a consequence of Einstein's theory of general relativity, permeate all of spacetime and could originate from mergers of the most...
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