Research by Chinese physicists has concluded that the lunar crust is capable of absorbing and amplifying certain types of gravitational waves produced by pairs of white dwarfs and other compact objects within the Milky Way.
The discovery, according to RT, opens the door to using the Moon as an "antenna" whose function is to detect this type of spacetime ripple.
The researchers, who are professors at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "Gravitational waves contain unique information about the early history of the universe and the merging processes of objects within the Milky Way galaxy. Research has shown that the lunar crust can amplify these cosmic ripples, transforming it into a giant natural detector, which allows seismometers to be deployed across multiple regions of the Moon to monitor millihertz gravitational waves."