Calculations had shown that LIGO was barely at the sensitivity threshold necessary to detect gravitational waves. So in 2010, LIGO was shut down for various upgrades, to the tune of more than $200 ...

Cosmic particles with phenomenal energy have puzzled scientists for decades. A new theory may finally unveil their origin.

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

India starts building a Rs 1,600 crore LIGO observatory in Maharashtra to detect gravitational waves, part of a global ...

On August 14, the after-effects of an extreme cosmic blast rippled through you, me, and everyone we know. But you didn't feel it. The only instruments on Earth that knew the fabric of space and ...

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry, a technique used to measure gravitational waves. By the time they reach ...

Researchers have developed an AI system capable of designing entirely new types of detectors for observing gravitational ...

Pune: The construction of LIGO India is finally set to start in Maharashtra's Hingoli, two years after the project was ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...