PHYSICS NEWS - SKY NIGHTLY

Matter and antimatter seem to respond equally to gravity

Jan 06, 2022 (SPX)

Matter and antimatter create some of the most interesting problems in physics today. They are essentially equivalent, except that where a particle has a positiv...

LCO Scientists Confirm the Discovery of the First Moving Microlensing Arcs

Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)

Follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations performed by LCO instruments gave the angular separation between the arcs. In parallel, the PIONIER instrum...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration announces 90 gravitational wave discoveries to date

Nov 09, 2021 (SPX)

The catalog revealed 35 new events, including 32 black hole mergers and at least two black hole-neutron star mergers. Several of the resulting black holes that ...

Gravitational 'kick' may explain the strange shape at the center of Andromeda

Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)

The research, published Oct. 29 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, helps solve a decades-old mystery surrounding a strangely-shaped cluster of stars at the h...

Towards the detection of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background

Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)

Although a detection cannot be claimed yet, this represents another significant step in the effort to finally unveil GWs at very low frequencies, of order one b...

Uncovering the secrets of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves

Oct 19, 2021 (SPX)

Gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of Einstein's spacetime - that cross the universe at the speed of light have all sorts of wavelengths, or frequencie...

New spin on space research

Oct 07, 2021 (ESA)

Run by the Jozef Stefan Institute on behalf of ESA, bedrest studies at the facility offer scientists a way to see how the human body adapts to weightlessness. T...

ESA and Mattel's Barbie in zero-g

Oct 05, 2021 (ESA)

Previously a one-of-a-kind item, the new Samantha Cristoforetti Barbie is now available across Europe. Part of the proceeds from sales of the new Barbie doll wi...

Microgravity on demand with Earth return through ESA's Boost!

Sep 28, 2021 (SPX)

Space Forge, based in the UK, is working with partners to develop ForgeStar - a reusable suitcase-sized vehicle that can be lofted to space and which will retur...

NASA awards SBP professor $2 million from to study flies in space

Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)

"Getting a precise understanding of how altered gravity impacts model organisms like the fruit fly puts us one step closer to understanding how to sustain human...

Exploring quantum gravity-for whom the pendulum swings

Sep 20, 2021 (SPX)

Although Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes gravity as a curvature of space-time, explains a multitude of gravitational phenomena, it fail...

ESA and UN offer worldwide access to hypergravity testing

Sep 02, 2021 (ESA)

The LDC is an 8-m diameter four-arm centrifuge that gives researchers access to a range of hypergravity up to 20 times Earth gravity for weeks or months at a ti...

On chaos, drunks and a solution to the chaotic three-body problem

Aug 16, 2021 (SPX)

When one massive object comes close to another, their relative motion follows a trajectory dictated by their mutual gravitational attraction, but as they move a...

Astrophysicist outlines plans for the gravitational wave observatory on the moon

Jul 22, 2021 (SPX)

"By tapping into the natural conditions on the moon, we showed that one of the most challenging spectrum of gravitational waves can be measured better from the ...

AstroAccess opens applications to disabled crew participants for space training on zero gravity flight

Jul 19, 2021 (SPX)

"Space is not just part of humanity's future - it is a place where we can rethink life on earth today," said George Whitesides, Mission: AstroAccess Project Lea...

A new type of gravitational wave detector to find tennis ballsized black holes

Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)

You can see stars in the eyes of the members of the team led by Professor Fuzfa, astrophysicist at UNamur, when talking about the perspectives of their research...

Scientists find new insights into the elusive continuous waves from spinning neutron stars

May 28, 2021 (SPX)

Take a star similar in size to the Sun, squash it down to a ball about twenty kilometres across - roughly the distance from Melbourne airport to the city centre...

Cramming it all into three hundred and thirty seconds of microgravity

May 27, 2021 (SPX)

This allowed five and a half minutes of microgravity to carry out the experiments. After the flight, the experiments were recovered by helicopter. On the ground...

NASA Marshall team soars to success in microgravity

May 20, 2021 (SPX)

Scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, completed two parabolic flights April 28 and 29 to test modifications to a payload c...

The gateway to weightlessness, the edge of space

Apr 29, 2021 (SPX)

To do so, scientists often meet at "the edge of space" on a modified airplane that achieves periods of variable gravity through a series of maneuvers called par...