A team of astronomers has identified a new polar cataclysmic variable, a rare type of binary star system featuring a highly ...

to develop and deliver an “ultra-stable” laser system for the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for funding back in 2017 following ...

NASA has revealed a full-scale prototype of the telescope that will be used in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) ...

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves warp spacetime. In the process, they could imprint ...

Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

TNO has been granted funding from the Netherlands Space Office to finish development of it’s high-precision laser targeting mechanism for the European Space Antenna LISA. LISA (Laser Interferometer ...

The ESA funds £10 million for new facilities at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC), the research institute in Edinburgh ...

such as the European Space Agency's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), scheduled for launch in the 2030s, will be able to confirm this hypothesis by detecting these elusive waves.

Scottish research laboratories are set to benefit from £10m in funding for a European mission to deploy spacecraft which will measure ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

A new Scottish laboratory is to play a key role in a flagship space agency mission that will provide insights on the formation of the early universe ...

The Verifire™ Laser Interferometer provides flatness metrology and surface form of optical components and wavefront of optical systems and subassemblies like windows, lenses, mirrors, prisms—and even ...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Lisa) project will use lasers, routed through optical benches made at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site, to measure gravitational waves. These waves are tiny ...