Two large, "L"-shaped instruments separated by 1,865 miles are eavesdropping on the most extreme events in the universe. The two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites, ...

Scientists have added another song to the soundtrack of the universe. On Wednesday (June 15), researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had ...

Last week, a breakthrough discovery was made in science that changes the way we view the universe, and part of that discovery happened in Louisiana.Scientists said last week that they have finally ...

Aerial view of LIGO Hanford Observatory. Photo undated. A still frame from a computer animation shows two binary neutron stars coalescing into a black hole. Taken from the video, "LIGO, A Passion for ...

Just shy of a century after Einstein penned his infamous paper on general relativity scientists finally confirmed a cornerstone of his predictions in 2015 — gravitational waves, little curvatures of ...

In 2015, a century-old prediction by Einstein was finally proven correct, as gravitational waves were detected for the first time. Now, the facilities behind this discovery – the Laser Interferometer ...

After a whirlwind tour of press conferences, parties and awards following their Feb. 11 announcement of the world’s first direct detection of gravitational waves, the team of scientists at the Laser ...

Photo provided by LIGO Imbedded deep in the pine forests north of Livingston, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, conducts research beneficial to the fields of astronomy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Three times over the past two years, LIGO has directly detected ...

It has been three years since the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) shut down, starting a long hiatus from searching the universe for gravitational waves. Now, though, the ...

Researchers report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which allows them to measure undulations in space-time across the entire range of gravitational frequencies detected by LIGO. In 2015, ...