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 ...

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 ...

"We are in an era where machines can discover new super-human solutions in science, and the task of humans is to understand ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

That’s where the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) comes into play, which uses miles-long L-shaped detectors to make reading those waves possible. Jackie explains that a ...

How gravitational waves might emanate from a white dwarf binary. At LIGO’s second facility, in Louisiana, engineers inspect the tunnels. Practically every action makes gravitational waves—you ...

Dr. Mario Krenn, head of the research group Artificial Scientist Lab at MPL, in collaboration with the team of LIGO ("Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory"), who built those ...

After nearly a decade of planning, lobbying, and fine-tuning, the Indian government has greenlit the full-scale construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory-India (LIGO ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...