A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs.

“Gravitational-wave astronomy and the merger event GW170817 opened a new window to the universe,” said Drischler. “The new ...

Black holes are an enormous source of gravity, "bubbles", and headaches. Predicted as a result of Einstein's general theory ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

Scientists propose a new approach to detect scalar field dark matter using LIGO, the gravitational wave observatory.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) proposes using gravitational wave detectors like LIGO to search for ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

Nearly imperceptible quantum flickers used to limit how precisely we could detect the way space-time ripples, but squeezing ...