News articles tagged with 'gravitational'
Newly merged black hole eagerly shreds stars
— 9 Apr 2011 11:52 | AstronomyA galaxy's core is a busy place, crowded with stars swarming around an enormous black hole. When galaxies collide, it gets even messier as the two black holes spiral toward each other,…
MESSENGER spacecraft to swing into orbit around Mercury
— 15 Mar 2011 21:20 | AstronomyAt 8:45 p.m. EDT on March 17, the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute manoeuvre that will place it into orbit around Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and…
New instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds
— 14 Feb 2011 15:09 | AstronomyThe search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge.…
Wave-generated 'white hole' boosts hawking radiation theory: UBC research
— 18 Jan 2011 16:17 | PhysicsA team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed a experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking…
Study predicts distribution of gravitational wave sources
— 3 Dec 2010 18:35 | AstronomyA pair of neutron stars spiralling toward each other until they merge in a violent explosion should produce detectable gravitational waves. A new study led by an undergraduate at the…
Princeton scientist recasts problems, offering new tools for old quandaries
— 17 Nov 2010 10:27 | PhysicsA Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges…
2 THEMIS probes redirected to moon to study magnetosphere, solar wind interactions
— 28 Oct 2010 15:57 | AstronomyTwo micro-satellites originally launched into Earth's orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by University of California, Berkeley, scientists toward new orbits around the moon,…
Saturn's icy moon may keep oceans liquid with wobble
— 8 Oct 2010 13:12 | AstronomySaturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years…
Enceladus may keep its oceans liquid by wobbling
— 7 Oct 2010 15:45 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered a giant plume of water gushing from cracks in the surface near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus in 2005, indicating that there was a reservoir…
LISA gravitational-wave mission strongly endorsed by National Research Council
— 19 Aug 2010 09:19 | AstronomyThe National Research Council (NRC) has strongly recommended the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) as one of NASA's next two major space missions, to start in 2016 in collaboration…