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Sep 30, 2014 (ESA)

Although not designed to map changes in Earth's gravity over time, ESA's extraordinary satellite has shown that the ice lost from West Antarctica over the last ...

Finding hints of gravitational waves in the stars

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have shown how gravitational waves-invisible ripples in the fabric of space and time that propagate through the universe-might be "seen" by looking a...

How much gravity is enough?

Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)

Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study b...

Lifetime of gravity measurements heralds new beginning

Aug 01, 2014 (ESA)

Although ESA's GOCE satellite is no more, all of the measurements it gathered during its life skirting the fringes our atmosphere, including the very last as it...

Measuring Gravitational Waves with eLISA

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

Puffs of smoke waft from a circuit board as interns solder tiny circuits for the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. "We're looking for evidence of blac...

Nuanced account of stunning patterns in the microwave sky published

Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)

Following a thorough peer-review process, the researchers who previously announced the detection of B-mode polarization in a patch of the microwave sky have pub...

Cosmic illusion revealed

Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers led by Robert Quimby at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has announced the discovery of a ...

ESA's weightless plants fly on a Dragon

Apr 25, 2014 (ESA)

It is a race against time for ESA's Gravi-2 experiment following launch last Friday on the Dragon space ferry. Stowed in Dragon's cargo are lentil seeds that wi...

Exploding stars prove Newton's gravity unchanged over cosmic time

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nin...

First Direct Evidence of Inflation and Primordial Gravitational Waves

Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers announced today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive p...

An end in sight in the long search for gravity waves

Feb 24, 2014 (TCM)

Our unfolding understanding of the universe is marked by epic searches and we are now on the brink of discovering something that has escaped detection for many ...

Pulsar in stellar triple system makes unique gravitational laboratory

Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense...

How hypergravity impacts electric arcs

Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)

Arc discharges are common in everyday conditions like welding or in lightning storms. But in altered gravity, not as much is known about the behaviour of electr...

You can't get entangled without a wormhole

Dec 10, 2013 (SPX)

Quantum entanglement is one of the more bizarre theories to come out of the study of quantum mechanics - so strange, in fact, that Albert Einstein famously refe...

Earth's gravity scarred by earthquake

Dec 06, 2013 (ESA)

ESA's GOCE satellite has revealed that the devastating Japanese earthquake of 2011 left its mark in Earth's gravity - yet another example of this extraordinary ...

Zero Gravity Corporation Completes Microgravity Research Mission

Dec 04, 2013 (SPX)

Zero Gravity Corporationhas successfully completed the latest ZERO-G Weightless Lab microgravity research flight. On November 17, ZERO-G clients tested equipmen...

NASA Pursues New Geodesy Application for Emerging Atom-Optics Technology

Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)

NASA technologists working to advance a pioneering technology that promises to detect tiny perturbations in the curvature of space-time now want to apply the sa...

GOCE mission comes to an end

Oct 23, 2013 (ESA)

After mapping variations in Earth's gravity with unprecedented detail for four years, the GOCE satellite has run out of fuel and the end of mission has been dec...

Gravitational waves know how black holes grow

Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)

A paper in the journal Science pits the front-running ideas about the growth of supermassive black holes against observational data - a limit on the strength of...

'Gravity' draws stellar reviews, awards buzz

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

"Gravity," starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as the sole survivors of a devastating accident in space, is winning rave reviews and Oscars buzz as Holly...