After a whirlwind tour of press conferences, parties and awards following their Feb. 11 announcement of the world’s first direct detection of gravitational waves, the team of scientists at the Laser ...

Update, 10:50 a.m.: For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space and time, called gravitation waves, confirming a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general ...

Using a unique scientific facility at Hanford, scientists have opened an exciting new field of astronomy and confirmed the existence of gravitational waves in the universe first predicted by Albert ...

The LIGO project's gravitational-wave detector facility in Livingston, Louisiana. Seven years ago, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) reported the first ...

Physicists are no longer content to simply listen to ripples in spacetime. A new proposal sketches out how an exquisitely ...

The National Science Foundation’s LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is set to resume its hunt for gravitational waves — ripples in space and time — on April 1, after receiving ...

For most of us, the mention of “technological innovation” brings to mind images of the technologies that have become useful for our everyday lives. We imagine aspiring app developers lounging about ...

Quantum mechanics usually applies to very small objects: atoms, electrons and the like. But physicists have now brought the equivalent of a 10-kilogram object to the edge of the quantum realm.

Photo provided by LIGO Imbedded deep in the pine forests north of Livingston, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, conducts research beneficial to the fields of astronomy ...

Research breakthroughs are often sagas of passion, curiosity and sacrifice. If Trump’s proposed budget cuts for 2026 are enacted, many such journeys may never get started. By Dennis Overbye He helped ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space, particularly mergers of binary black hole systems, for ...