Gravitational interaction as a research area encompasses the theoretical, computational, and experimental study of how mass-energy curves spacetime and governs the dynamics of astrophysical and cosmological systems. It includes general relativity, tests of the equivalence principle, post-Newtonian approximations, and numerical relativity for compact-object binaries and gravitational-wave sources. The field also investigates modifications of gravity, dark matter and dark energy phenomenology from a gravitational perspective, strong- and weak-field regimes, gravitational lensing, and structure formation. Research involves precision experiments, multi-messenger astronomy, and the development of effective field theories and quantum-gravity–motivated models to probe deviations from classical gravitational dynamics.
As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago.
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The Artemis 2 astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday as they sped toward a planned lunar flyby, with NASA releasing initial images of Earth taken from inside the Orion spacecraft.
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Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen felt like he was "falling out of the sky" as his spacecraft followed its complex flight path to the moon, the Canadian said in a Saturday video call.
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NASA's Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity in shallow laps around Earth in the decades since Apollo.
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It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972.
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In September 2022, humanity crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid—on purpose. The objective of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was to see if we could intentionally modify the orbit of Dimorphos, the small moonlet ...
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NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time.
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Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood are the Trojans, named after the people of Troy featured in "The Iliad." When astronomers refer to ...
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Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about it, after its trajectory. Actually doing so isn't easy though, as the mass for objects in the tens ...
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The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information direct studies could provide ...
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