The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

Physicists call such ripples gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915 as part of his theory of relativity, but he thought they were too weak to ever ...

The massive bill is guided by spending requests from the White House. It will extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, while cutting ...

Astronomers have made a historic breakthrough: for the first time, a black hole has been observed consuming a neutron star,an event so powerful it sent ripples through the very fabric of space-time.

India is building the third LIGO detector, thus completing the triad with the two existing US-based observatories.

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...