After watching that, I joked with a friend that the gravity we feel every day is actually a result of space-time being ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

The observatory is one of two in the United States funded by the National Science Foundation with its counterpart, LIGO ...

Today, let's talk about something mysterious and really cool — the ideas that old man Einstein came up with over a hundred years ago are now actually becoming visible! Isn't that strange?

The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration presents the loudest gravitational wave signal from two merging black holes, confirming ...

In 1972, Stephen Hawking published a seminal study showing that as two black holes merge, the surface area of the final event ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) could potentially detect gravitational waves from an alien spacecraft as it makes its way through our galaxy, according to a team of ...

The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in Massachusetts, ...

Watch a documentary Monday  Check out a screening of an award-winning space documentary, Monday, Sept. 15, at the LSU Student Union.   Ten years ago, gravitational waves were discovered in space, and ...

Physicist who won a Nobel Prize for LIGO Hanford observatory in Eastern WA died. LIGO confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity by detecting gravitational waves in 2015. Twin LIGO sites in WA and LA ...

The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...