Scientists want your help studying black holes — and you can do it from your own home! more

Astronomers have apparently spotted another epic neutron-star crash — and they didn't need gravitational waves to do it. more

Researchers hoping to better interpret data from the detection of gravitational waves generated by the collision of binary black holes are turning to the public for... more

Within two weeks of beginning its third observation period, the LIGO project has spotted the gravitational-wave signatures of what could... more

Researchers hoping to better interpret data from the detection of gravitational waves generated by the collision of binary black holes are turning to the public for help. more

Gravitational waves – the invisible ripples in the fabric of space predicted by Albert Einstein – are opening up a new era of astronomy... more

Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your own room is inaudible to the whisperers. Researchers have... more

Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your own room is inaudible to the whisperers. Yale researchers... more

The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic... more

Souped-up instruments could spot never-before-seen sources of gravitational waves. more

“If we are very lucky, we might observe something new … or maybe even something totally unexpected.” more

On the morning of Aug. 17, 2017, after traveling for more than a hundred million years, the aftershocks from a massive collision in a... more

Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015,... more

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... more

Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are advancing knowledge about the limits on the precision of the measurements that will help... more

Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a... more

Researchers present the first broadband, off-resonance measurement of quantum radiation pressure noise in the audio band, at frequencies relevant to gravitational wave detectors. more

Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are... more