Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...

According to new research, gravity may have been able to create light. During expansion, right after the Big Bang, gravitational waves may have built on each other to create huge standing waves of ...

It was officially announced Thursday by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory team that there was a direct observation of gravitational waves. The prediction of gravitational waves’ ...

Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA ...

Dark energy—a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate—was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle causing ...

Australian energy storage company Green Gravity and mining business Wollongong Resources have signed an agreement to deploy ...

A disused coal mine in Wollongong will be the first test site for a renewable energy company that lowers weights down old ...