On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

This week, researchers reported on a new biopsy tool that can detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer up to 10 years ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...

Artificial intelligence is poised to take LIGO's search for gravitational waves to the next level, with Google's help.

A decade after the pair of observatories first detected gravitational waves, researchers are drawing up ambitious plans for ...

Out on a remote tract of land in Hingoli district of Maharashtra, well away from busy towns and cities, work is on to set up ...

The observatory is one of two in the United States funded by the National Science Foundation with its counterpart, LIGO ...

Trying to figure out the nature of the universe and our place in it has been a quest of humankind since the beginning of time. That these powerful tools exist today in Louisiana should be a source of ...