"Europe's LISA Mission: Hunting for Spacetime Ripples in Space"

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the first space-based gravitational wave detector, has been approved for launch in the mid-2030s as a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency. LISA's three spacecraft will form a triangle in space, detecting gravitational waves by firing laser beams over distances of several kilometers. This mission aims to detect waves from merging black holes, neutron stars, and supernovas at much greater distances than Earth-based detectors, potentially uncovering events from the dawn of time.