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 ...

The gravitational wave detector will be able to spot neutron star mergers as distant as 620 million light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. The National Science ...

Aerial view of LIGO Hanford Observatory. Photo undated. A still frame from a computer animation shows two binary neutron stars coalescing into a black hole. Taken from the video, "LIGO, A Passion for ...

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As scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory resume their search for ripples in the fabric of space-time, the awards for their discoveries continue to stack up. On Monday, ...

On May 24, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) began an 18-month campaign to detect the most distant collisions between black holes and neutron stars ever ...

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released a catalog of results from the first half of its third observing run (O3a), and scientists have detected more than three times as many ...

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Two laboratories that comprise the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) will be designated Historic Physics Sites by the American Physical Society (APS) in a ceremony beginning ...

New mirror coatings will increase the volume of space LIGO can probe in its next run. Since LIGO's groundbreaking detection, in 2015, of gravitational waves produced by a pair of colliding black holes ...

LIGO team member Alena Ananyeva is seen at LIGO Livingston Observatory installing new baffles on part of the LIGO instrument that controls stray light. These upgrades were made in preparation for ...