The surface features of neutron stars are largely unknown. Nuclear theorists explored mountain building mechanisms active on ...

Gravity causes space-time to stretch — think ... Evidence of these events are what LIGO is looking for. Rai Weiss had the idea to look for gravitational waves using laser interferometers in ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery ...

Gravity probe's super performance Gravitational waves pioneer dies Italy to hunt for Einstein's waves LIGO's triumph for big science Five reasons why gravitational waves matter Once again ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have developed optical spring tracking to enhance signal clarity in gravitational-wave ...

Physicists have proposed an innovative theory linking dark matter to a hypothetical fifth dimension, suggesting a groundbreaking solution to one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos. Their ...

In most cases, black holes are formed from the remnants of massive stars that have collapsed under their own gravity after exhausting ... factors of our study. As LIGO and Virgo keep increasing ...

Although gravity is dominant over large cosmic scales ... patient detective work by the Advanced LIGO experiment. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to ...

But in closely packed globular star clusters, collections of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by their own gravity, the density of stars increases dramatically ... as a species,” Rodriguez ...

The latest LIGO observations rekindle a fiery debate over how gravity works: Does the universe include dark matter, or doesn’t it? How one citizen science endeavor is using the Internet to ...

Pulsar timing leverages observations of ultra-stable cosmic clocks known as pulsars to probe fundamental physics, from tests of alternate theories of gravity to constraints of extreme nuclear physics ...