PHYSICS NEWS - SKY NIGHTLY

Fibertek to develop satellite-based charge management system for LISA Gravitational Wave Observatory

Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)

LISA is an international project led by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop and launch a space-based gravitational wave detector. The detector consists o...

Atom interferometry demonstrated in space for the first time

Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)

"We have established the technological basis for atom interferometry on board of a sounding rocket and demonstrated that such experiments are not only possible ...

New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales

Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)

Now, using a new technique, a team in which the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has shown that this "missing" baryonic matter is fo...

A brighter future for gravitational-wave astronomy

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

They combined the custom tailored light from two high-power lasers so precisely that it meets the requirements for use in gravitational-wave detectors. In a nex...

Cosmic lens reveals faint radio galaxy

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

The discovery was part of the VLA Frontier Fields Legacy Survey, led by NRAO Astronomer Eric Murphy, which used distant clusters of galaxies as natural lenses t...

Gravity mission still unearthing hidden secrets

Mar 16, 2021 (ESA)

The lithosphere, which includes the planet's hard crust and the partially molten top part of the upper mantle, is fundamental to plate tectonics. Plate tectonic...

NASA, Blue Origin Partner to bring lunar gravity conditions closer to Earth

Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)

Currently, NASA can approximate the Moon's gravity on parabolic flights and in centrifuges on suborbital vehicles - both invaluable options for maturing promisi...

University students test NASA techology in microgravity

Feb 26, 2021 (SPX)

Spacecraft propellants such as liquid hydrogen and oxygen must be maintained at extremely cold, or cryogenic, temperatures (-296 degrees Fahrenheit and below) t...

Placing cosmological constraints on quantum gravity phenomenology

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

These corrections arise when gravitational interactions are considered, leading to a 'Generalized Uncertainty Principle' (GUP). Two specific GUP models are ofte...

NANOGrav finds possible 'first hints' of low-frequency gravitational wave background

Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)

NANOGrav researchers - including a number from West Virginia University's (WVU's) Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Gravitational Waves and...

Strongest squeezing ever seen in a gravitational-wave detector

Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)

But one can change the noise properties - using a process called squeezing - such that it does not disturb the measurements as much. Now, GEO600 researchers hav...

Using ancient fossils and gravitational-wave science to predict earth's future

Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)

The research, published in the journal Climate of the Past, is a unique collaboration between palaeontologists, astrophysicists and mathematicians - to improve ...

Arecibo observatory helps find possible 'first hints' of low-frequency gravitational waves

Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)

The results were presented at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which was held virtually, and are published in The Astrophysical Journal L...

'Galaxy-sized' observatory sees potential hints of gravitational waves

Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)

The new findings, which appeared recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, hail from a U.S. and Canadian project called the North American Nanohertz Observ...

What happens when your brain can't tell which way is up or down?

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

In a new study published in PLoS One, researchers at York University's Centre for Vision Research found that an individual's interpretation of the direction of ...

China launches two satellites for gravitational wave detection

Dec 10, 2020 (XNA)

The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-...

A technique to sift out the universe's first gravitational waves

Dec 10, 2020 (SPX)

Primordial gravitational waves, produced nearly 13.8 billion years ago, still echo through the universe today. But they are drowned out by the crackle of gravit...

Getting in a spin over a cup of coffee

Dec 09, 2020 (ESA)

Researchers are studying extent of this adjustment through the Grip experiment, being set up in this image by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins on board the Internati...

Looking at solutions on a parabolic flight

Nov 19, 2020 (ESA)

Part of the Chemo-Hydrodynamic Patterns and Instabilities (CHYPI) experiment that recently flew on the 73rd ESA parabolic flight campaign, this cell has a lot t...

Hundreds of copies of Newton's Principia found in new census

Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)

"We felt like Sherlock Holmes," says Mordechai (Moti) Feingold, the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities at Caltech, who ex...