Astronomers obsessed with solving the mysteries of dark matter or dark energy should remember: To make a great discovery, sometimes you need to know what you’re looking for. Take Michel Lalande. He ...

A new map of Mars’ gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. “Gravity maps allow us to see inside ...

Fundamental probe: Could the International Space Station be the basis for a first test of quantum gravity? (Courtesy: NASA) A global team of researchers is planning to use the International Space ...

I was traveling last week and couldn’t put up a post about Crash Course Astronomy when it came out. So, belatedly, here is Episode 7: Gravity! Writing these episodes can be a tightrope walk. Gravity ...

The email came in the night on September 15. A significant event had happened at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) during their engineering run. A ripple in spacetime had ...

Gravity is the unseen force that shapes the universe, yet we rarely give it much thought. First explained by Sir Isaac Newton, it is the pull that draws objects toward one another based on their mass ...

The prevailing assumption has been that Einstein's theory of gravity must be modified, or 'quantized', in order to fit within quantum theory. This is the approach of two leading candidates for a ...

WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency’s plan to scale back two big-ticket astrophysics missions is sending NASA back to the drawing board to draft new mission concepts in support of gravity wave and ...

"By understanding quantum gravity, we could solve some of the mysteries of our universe — like how it began, what happens inside black holes, or uniting all forces into one big theory." When you ...

Russia, which is preparing to independently launch a space station in 2027, was recently reported to have newly designed a space station in the form of a rotating structure. It is said that a related ...