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LISA Pathfinder launch timeline
Dec 03, 2015 (ESA)
On Thursday, a Vega rocket will boost LISA Pathfinder into space to pave the way to a future mission for detecting gravitational waves. Once aloft, ESA's missio...
LISA Pathfinder en route to gravitational wave demonstration
Dec 03, 2015 (ESA)
ESA's LISA Pathfinder lifted off earlier today on a Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its way to demonstrate technology for obser...
LISA Pathfinder - the countdown is running
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
At 5:15 CET on December 2, a Vega rocket is scheduled for launch from the European spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana) to lift a "pathfinder" into space: LISA P...
Gravity, who needs it
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
What happens to your body in space? NASA's Human Research Program has been unfolding answers for over a decade. Space is a dangerous, unfriendly place. Isolated...
LISA Pathfinder prepped for Vega launch in December
Oct 16, 2015 (ESA)
The LISA Pathfinder demonstrator for space-based observations of gravitational waves is undergoing checkout at the Spaceport, preparing it for a December 2 laun...
LISA Pathfinder takes a major step closer to launch
Oct 09, 2015 (ESA)
The LISA Pathfinder deep-space science payload for Arianespace's next mission with its Vega launcher has been delivered to South America for an early December l...
Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics
Sep 11, 2015 (SPX)
Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions - how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small - have discovered that when...
LISA Pathfinder set for launch site
Sep 02, 2015 (ESA)
LISA Pathfinder, ESA's demonstrator for spaceborne observations of gravitational waves, is ready to leave for Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Sched...
Gravitational Constant appears universally constant, Pulsar study suggests
Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)
Gravity, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, appears reassuringly constant across the Universe, according to a decades-long study of a distant pulsar....
Solving the gravitational N-body problem in general relativity
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Recent experiments have successfully tested Einstein's general theory of relativity in a variety of ways and to remarkable precision. These experiments included...
Newly dedicated observatory to search for gravitational waves
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
Seeking to expand how we observe and understand the universe where we live, the National Science Foundation has helped dedicate the Advanced Laser Gravitational...
Gravity data show that Antarctic ice sheet is melting increasingly faster
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
During the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, accord...
Cornell plays key role surfing for gravitational waves
Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)
A full century after Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity proclaimed that gravitational waves cause ripples in spacetime, humanity may finally have the tools ...
NSF-Funded Physics Frontiers Center Expands Hunt for Gravitational Waves
Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)
The search for gravitational waves-elusive ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted to arise from extremely energetic and large-scale cosmic events such as...
Worms in space: Exploring health effects of microgravity
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
Humans may inevitably explore other planets, moons, and asteroids within our solar system. And although life on Earth has adapted to our planet's gravitational ...
Still doubts on gravitational waves
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
Third (and most probably not the last) chapter in the ongoing story about the "first direct image of gravitational waves through the primordial sky". In March l...
Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Remain Elusive
Feb 03, 2015 (JPL)
A joint analysis of data from the Planck space mission and the ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the b...
Microgravity Helping Us Understand Immune System's Tiny Warriors
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Scary threats to human health dominate the news these days. Space travel may help scientists strengthen our bodies' ability to fight such threats. Two upcoming ...
Pulsars with black holes could hold the 'holy grail' of gravity
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
The intermittent light emitted by pulsars, the most precise timekeepers in the universe, allows scientists to verify Einstein's theory of relativity, especially...
First harvest of research based on the final GOCE gravity model
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Just four months after the final data package from the GOCE satellite mission was delivered, researchers are laying out a rich harvest of scientific results, wi...
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