As far as odd couples go, this is one for the record books. The ripples in spacetime stirred up by two distant, merging black holes suggest that one of the pair was much bigger than the other. It’s ...

Earth is awash in gravitational waves. Over a six-month period, scientists captured a bounty of 39 sets of gravitational waves. The waves, which stretch and squeeze the fabric of spacetime, were ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has made a third detection of gravitational waves, providing the latest confirmation that a new window in astronomy has opened. As was the case ...

Gravitational waves have struck again. Scientists who in February announced their landmark discovery of these ripples in spacetime revealed on Wednesday that they had detected more—again caused by a ...

About 130 million years ago, two incredibly heavy, dense neutron stars spiraled around each other. Their dance brought them closer to one another and made them spin faster, until they were circling ...

Update: The team announced the first detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars. | Today, scientists studying gravitational waves are due to make a mysterious announcement of what's ...

Following weeks of rumours that gravitational waves have finally been discovered, scientists are set to make an announcement Thursday morning. Scientists with the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer ...

The twin observatories of LIGO — a scientific facility aimed at detecting gravitational waves from cosmic events such as exploding stars — are separated by nearly 2,000 miles. Project participants say ...

Update: this story was changed to reflect its attribution to Gaby Gonzalez's talk at the January 2018 AAS Meeting, as well as the attribution of major parts of this story to the LIGO press release ...

After seven years of upgrades, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories were dedicated on Tuesday at the LIGO Hanford facility near Richland, Washington. The facilities are ...

Advanced Ligo represents one of the most sensitive measuring systems ever devised The experiment that should finally detect ripples in the fabric of space-time is up and running. Labs in the US states ...

Two projects born a century ago in the mind of Albert Einstein, and the scientific leaders behind them, won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for detecting gravitational waves. Rainer Weiss won one half ...