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

Gravitational waves ... will be the first space-based observatory specifically designed to detect these waves, marking a major advancement in astrophysics. The unveiling of the Engineering ...

Promising new designs for gravitational wave detectors developed by artificial intelligence have left scientists with new ...

Astrophysicist Kip Thorne dared to dream of a machine to find gravitational waves ... hopefully to be joined in the future by an enormous detector operating in space, our ability to probe the ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Einstein imagined gravitational waves over a hundred years ago, but it wasn't until 2016 that technology finally caught up.

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

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed an AI system capable of designing entirely new types of detectors for observing gravitational ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...

Astronomers have used space-based telescopes, including NASA's Swift X-ray observatory, to watch a monster black hole spring ...