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, ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, made history when it made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, ...

An artist's illustration of two colliding neutron stars. Collisions of massive objects in space like neutron stars and black holes ruffle the fabric of spacetime. These tiny distortions of space are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that ...

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 ...

A look at the technology that creates squeezed light in LIGO's vacuum chamber. The picture was taken from one of the chamber's viewports at a time when the squeezer was operational and pumped with ...

LIGO researchers at MIT, Caltech, and elsewhere report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which allows them to measure undulations in space-time across the entire range of gravitational ...

Researchers report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which allows them to measure undulations in space-time across the entire range of gravitational frequencies detected by LIGO. In 2015, ...