A technique to sift out the universe’s first gravitational waves
Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
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Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
As part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, Professor Tanja Bosak helps determine the best samples to bring home for clues about life 4 billion years ago.
The US will provide sensors to be hosted on board regional navigation satellites that Japan is developing.
Grad student Chiara Salemi and Professor Lindley Winslow use the ABRACADABRA instrument to reveal insights into dark matter.
Fabric samples are headed to the International Space Station for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.
The fast radio bursts are likely generated by a magnetar, the most magnetic type of star in the universe.
Nicholas Demos, a first-generation college graduate and MathWorks Fellow in MIT’s Kavli Institute, is improving our ability to listen to the cosmos.
Analysis of Event Horizon Telescope observations from 2009 to 2017 reveals turbulent evolution of the M87* black hole image.
The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable.
Evidence indicates phosphine, a gas associated with living organisms, is present in the habitable region of Venus’ atmosphere.
National Science Foundation awards proposal for space weather modeling.
A binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.
Researchers suggest a novel process to explain the collision of a large black hole and a much smaller one.
Despite the planet’s seeming standstill, graduate students continue to use LIGO to identify astrophysical events.
By making their own lava and cooled glass, scientists find these materials likely aren’t responsible for the unexpected glow of some exoplanets.