The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

Richardson, who earned his bachelor’s degree in Space Physics from Embry‑Riddle in 2021, started the research as an undergraduate student under the guidance of Michele Zanolin, a professor in the ...

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...

But perhaps the biggest triumph of general relativity came in 2015, with the discovery of gravitational waves – ripples in space-time caused by the movement of very massive objects. The signal ...

So, what exactly is a gravity wave? As the National Weather Service explains, air can move in one of two ways – straight or in a wave. The waves themselves can either be vertical or horizontal.