The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that made scientific history and launched a new way to study the universe.

Today the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces the completion of the fourth observation campaign of the ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has completed the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the ...

After a prolonged absence from the gravitational-wave-detection scene, the massive LIGO project is back up and running. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) works in ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Since the ...

After nearly a decade of planning, lobbying, and fine-tuning, the Indian government has greenlit the full-scale construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory-India ...

Scientists are certain they have detected the rare collisions of a black hole and a neutron star for the first time with the help of the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington. The violent ...

A specialist checks the alignment of a test beam at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. (National Science Foundation Photo) After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part ...

India will soon break ground on a detector that will hunt for tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time. On April 6, the Indian Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved 26 ...