🛰️ LISA takes another step towards the future of GW astronomy! NASA has selected @l3harristech.bsky.social to design, assemble, and integrate the Engineering Test Unit, marking a key milestone towards the production of the mission’s flight hardware. 👀 Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/lis...

NASA Advances LISA Mission Contributions With New Test Telescope - NASA Science

NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space

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🛰️ A decade after LISA Pathfinder, its data continues to support new research and strengthen the foundations for LISA. 🎉 Mark the anniversary by reading the LPF article in the latest issue of the LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social: ligo.org/wp-content/u... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

👀 Check out this episode of @esa.int's Expedition Sound podcast series that lets us sink into the depths of space and explore the mysterious effects of gravity. ✨ Discover more about this podcast here: www.esa.int/.../The_dept... Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves

What do you do when your observatory is simply too big for Earth? 🌍 You send it into space! 🚀 LISA will be the first space-based observatory for gravitational waves, using three spacecraft separated by millions of kilometres. 🎥 @drbecky.bsky.social explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JvI...

The new observatory so big it can’t be built on Earth

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What do black holes and comic books have in common? More than you'd think. 📖 Read it for free: blackholecomicbook.com

Happy birthday #GW150914! 11 years ago today, we caught our first gravitational wave, and founded a new type of astronomy A decade later, we now have hundreds of observations! 🔭🧪🎂

JuanPa is a Payload System Engineer at the European Space Agency @esa.int working on LISA Systems Engineering.

Feel like reminiscing about the #EuropeanSolarEclipse? We've got you covered. Check out our summary, featuring photos from the ground and from space, as well as a look-back at our in-person event in León and live broadcast from Javalambre 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

A look back at the 2026 total solar eclipse

On 12 August 2026, Europe witnessed the first total solar eclipse in over two decades. Millions of people were awed by the Moon completely covering the Sun's bright disc, briefly turning day into nigh...

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Elena Maria Rossi is a Full Professor at Leiden University working on Massive Black Hole Binaries, Galactic Binaries and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals.

✨ LISA and ET Team Up to Catch Cosmic Echoes!

LISA Symposium Poster Session pictures are here! 🚀 Many of you were waiting for them, thanks for your patience and let’s all thank our amazing photographer Dennis Henry! 📸 More pictures coming soon! #LISASymposium2026 #LISAmission #nasa #esa

🎉 Today marks the completion of the nominal science phase of the LISA Technology Package aboard LISA Pathfinder. 🛰️ 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgqq... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

Lisa Pathfinder mission overview

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Tracking water with LISA technology: GRACE-C, successor to GRACE & GRACE-FO, carries a laser ranging interferometer with LISA Pathfinder heritage. Sensing nm-scale shifts in satellite separation, it maps Earth's moving water - ice, groundwater, sea level. 🌍🌎🌏 #LISASymposium2026 #NASA

Meet Taiji, a Chinese LISA-class observatory proposal: 3 spacecraft, heliocentric, ~3M km arms, mHz band, early-2030s launch. Together with LISA, it would have a ~100M km baseline for sharper localization. Demo stages funded; full mission awaits approval. #LISASymposium2026 #ICTP-AP #UCAS #CAS

Halfway through #LISASymposium2026 and the energy's anything but halved! Brilliant talks and an engaged community. Let's chase them gravitational waves! Here's the crew and energy at midpoint - ready for round two! #lisasymposium2026

LISA's Phase Measurement System: Quadrant Photo Receivers + Phasemeter tracking science, reference & test-mass channels and syncing clocks across 2.5 million kilometer, the backbone of Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) noise suppression. #nasa #LISASymposium2026 #esa #gravitationalwaves #lisamission

WE WILL BE LIVE IN A MOMENT! Day 3 of the 16th International LISA Symposium: Plenary Session 5 (Waveforms and Interferometry) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnz9... Plenary Session 6 (Sirens, Signatures and Global Fit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1xy... #lisasymposium2026

16th LISA Symposium - Plenary Session 5

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Brilliant and fun overview of Gravitational Waves and LISA ... and explosions. Big explosions! Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe, explained the importance of LISA to a broad audience and answered questions from the audience. #lisasymposium2026

LISA Symposium Public Lecture ... Listening to the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves and LISA ... by Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe. 6:30pm at Stamp Student Union Hoff Theater (Ground Floor) #lisasymposium2026 #lisamission #nasa #esa

LISA will predict when massive black hole binaries will merge by detecting the gravitational waves created by the black holes orbiting each other. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰🌊) At #LISASymposium2026, John Ruan (Bishop's University) talks through the challenge of detecting their electromagnetic counterparts. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰💥)

We are back online! 🚀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7U_... #nasa #lisamission #lisasymposium2026 #esa

16th LISA Symposium - Plenary Session 4

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A few impressions from our LISA Symposium Day 1 Plenary Speakers, captured by our NASA Goddard photographer Dennis Henry 📷 lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu #nasa #lisamission #lisasymposium2026 #esa

🛰️🔭⚕️🩺 Yesterday's highlights include the medical side effects of gravitational wave exposure as presented by ESA Scientist Oliver Jennrich: www.youtube.com/live/9YCgx1F... You can watch yesterday's and today's Plenary Sessions at www.youtube.com/@LISAcommuni... #LISASymposium2026 #xkcd

TRLs mentioned in one of today’s plenaries, but no mention of how that translates to Space Unicorns! See TRL5 & TRL6… @granttremblay.com @lisacommunity.bsky.social #LISASymposium2026

16th International LISA Symposium June 21-26, 2026 Plenary 3 (LISA Science Team, Optical Metrology System & more): www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyUg... Plenary 4 (EMRIs, MBHB Mergers, LECS): www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7U_... Schedule: lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu/schedule.html #LISASymposium2026

GRATTIS brings precision gravitational wave sensors to Earth, simplifying LISA's gravitational reference sensors into compact, robust instruments. This opens a new way to weigh our planet, tracking melting ice, shifting groundwater, and rising seas, mapping climate change & more. #LISASymposium2026

Gravitational waves carry information from before light could travel freely, when the universe was an opaque plasma. This opens a window onto new physics beyond known laws, and perhaps the very origin of spacetime, whether it began in a Big Bang or bounced from an earlier phase. #LISASymposium2026

In addition to the main org and social media teams, we’re collaborating with the science communicators to cover our symposium! Anna and Simon are driven young specialists in the field of the gravitational wave detectors. Tag along to stay informed about announcements! #lisasymposium2026 #nasa #esa

Great insight into the engineering of the LISA spacecraft this morning from ESA engineer Juan Pablo Rodríguez García. 🚀 #LISASymposium2026

16th International LISA Symposium June 21-26, 2026 Schedule: lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu/schedule.html Follow live: www.youtube.com/@LISAcommuni... #LISASymposium2026