A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

Read more about Northwestern's role in the discovery of gravitational waves in our summer 2016 feature "New Window to the Universe." Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors ...

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

Loeb and Fell, both experts on gravitational waves, will work with Applied Physics to develop practical technologies for detecting certain kinds of objects and signals from space. Gravitational ...

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

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 ...

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 ...