This method comes via gravitational waves. First detected in 2015 by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, gravitational waves are "ripples" in spacetime caused by dramatic events in the ...

When hit by a wave, one big cloud of stellar dust and gas ... Just as the Sun’s gravity pulls on the Earth in the direction of the center of the solar system, the Earth’s gravity pulls on you towards ...

For his Ph.D. research, Sjors Heefer has explored gravity in our universe ... In the case of the planets in the solar system, ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from ...

(Illustration by Aurore Simonnet for NANOGrav Collaboration) Astrophysicists have found the best evidence yet for a low-frequency “hum” of gravitational ... even in the solar system ...

Chelsea Whyte: Yeah, or the solar system, or everything, everywhere. Leah Crane: All at once. Today we’re going to get into whether we could use gravitational waves to quite literally shake up ...

LISA should be able to detect gravitational-wave memory by measuring the permanent distortion of space within the solar system after the waves pass through. Again, despite the enormity of their ...

Until recently, gravitational waves could have been a ... these is no place better in the solar system than our moon.” Like LISA, LILA would have three stations beaming lasers in a triangle ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System.